[openbeos] Re: Mirror of Be's ftp site

  • From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:19:45 -0500

I grabbed a copy of the newsletters a few (maybe 4) months ago. 
I asked someone to snip them into pieces (instead of chronological, organized by
topic). I have yet to hear back.

>
>In case you haven't read the news, Be has yanked its ftp site -- along 
>with most of the dev/user info on the website, its mailing lists, etc.
>
>There was alot of interesting stuff on the ftp site -- sample code, old 
>newsletter articles, the BeOS PE (Personal Edition) download, etc. I 
>know that there are several mirrors of Be's ftp site out there, but I'm 
>not sure what the URLs are. I found a few that had only the PE download 
>but not the other stuff. I just located one that seems to have most (if 
>not all) of the original content:
>
>ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/BeOS
>
>This is a Swedish mirror (thank goodness for those swedes!)
>
>The reason that I was specifically concerned about this is that I want 
>all those old Be Newsletters. I knew that Be had a zip of all the old 
>newsletters on their ftp site, which I had been meaning to download. 
>And like a big, fat, stupid dummy, I forgot. Fortunately, finding this 
>swedish mirror has saved the day. Here's the URL of the old newsletters 
>for those who want to save them as well:
>
>ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/BeOS/webarchives/BeNewsletterArch.zip
>
>This is a 2.3MB zip.
>
>If anyone else knows of other mirrors of Be's ftp site, by all means, 
>post 'em here.
>
>




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