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
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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