At 10:54 AM 11/12/2004 -0800, you wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 07:11:46AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
At 06:23 AM 11/12/2004 -0800, you wrote:
Actually, it's pretty easy to find all the original Project Gutenberg eBooks, as well as the newer versions, because so many places keep them, usually in the thousands for any of our eBooks that have been out for even a week.
Hello. Actually, I've had a hard time finding any of the very early editions of PG files. There are some old files in the etext90 directory, but not edition 10 of the first several ebooks. I would be interested to find the very first edition of when10.txt or whatever it was called as MH posted it. Even the old GUTINDEX.* files have been removed, with the earliest being GUTINDEX.96 when it used to be GUTINDEX.90.
Michael might have some of the older files. There are a few sources, like old Walnut Creek CDs, that might also be able to help.
I do not have every old Walnut Creek CD ever published, but I do have one and it does not have any of the older files either. I first started using PG in 1995 and even then the very early files from 1971-89 were not generally available. The oldest file, at least as far as apparently the oldest PG header that I am aware of is plboss10.zip. I'm not sure if edition 10 is still available but I have it.