Hi. Yes, I'm vaguely familiar with rsync. The problem is that I don't want each and every file posted. I don't download html and 8-bit files for example. I only download the zipped plain text files. Also I don't want some religious works. Therefore rsync won't help me. As far as the external drive, that's not a bad idea but I think I prefer DVD instead. Finally, http://www.archive.org/ is fine, just ftp doesn't work. I tried on two different computers so I don't think it's my settings. I also have wget but prefer ncftp as it's a dedicated ftp client. I am near San Diego, CA. At 02:12 PM 6/26/06 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Tony, I am in California too - southern california to be exact. I don't know why it's not working for you because it works fine for me. Maybe your FTP program is not connecting correctly. Me, i use wget (avilable for windows as well as a default on Linux) for my Gutenberg downloading needs.
I plan to get an external hard drive (preferably an Iomega drive) later, probably for my birthday next Thursday, which i can then use to store the Gutenberg etexts and save me some disk space on my current drive. I would be using rsync to do that (check the Mirroring FAQ on PG if you don't know what that is), apparently it's much faster than wget or even FTP because it doesn't check every single file for hours to find updates, it keeps a list of all files and only downloads the ones that specifically need updating, saves you a couple of hours of time. Or at least that's what Aaron (Cannon) told me.
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