These files contain archives of the Kermit project websites and FTP site. The archives are in the "files" directory. kermitmirror is an archive of ftp.kermitproject.org. kermit-websites-mirror is an archive of the relevant parts of www.kermitproject.org, www.columbia.edu, and ftp.columbia.edu. As there are many duplicates in both archives, identical files have been hardlinked together before archiving to save space. EXTRACTION ---------- In order to be able to represent changes over time, these archives are created using dar. You can obtain dar from: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ Dar is also packaged for most Linux and BSD distributions, as well as MacOS package systems. I have also included the source (for *nix systems) and Windows binaries in the "dar" directory. By using dar, we can easily track the changes to these mirrors over time. Also, it is easy to make a decremental archive -- that is, to take a current working tree and take it back in time to represent an earlier state. To extract, first start with the most recent "full" backup. Then extract with, for instance: dar -v -x kermit-websites-mirror-2024-08-26-full If you want to go back to an earlier state, apply every decremental since, in order: dar -w -v -x kermit-websites-mirror-2023-08-08-decremental For more on dar, see my page on it at https://www.complete.org/dar . If you're curious, these were generated for maximum efficiency with: dar --fsa-scope none -zzstd:10 -c ../kermit-websites-mirror-2023-07-08-full \ -R . -g kermit-websites-mirror and dar -w -v --fsa-scpoe none \ --merge kermit-websites-mirror-2023-07-08-decremental \ --ref kermit-websites-mirror-2023-07-08-full \ --aux kermit-websites-mirror-2024-08-26-full \ -ad -ak -- John Goerzen, jgoerzen@complete.org August 26, 2024