The site http://awk.freeshell.org which contains many useful awk FAQs
has been down for months now saying:

> #!/usr/pkg/bin/perl5.24.0
> package OddMuse;
> $DataDir = '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/wiki';
> do '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/current.pl';

I've tried a few times but can't find anyone to contact about that
(well, I found help@sdf.lonestar.org but they didn't respond).

Does anyone have any information on how to contact the providers to try
to get that site back up?

Ed.

Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> writes:

> I've tried a few times but can't find anyone to contact about that
> (well, I found help@sdf.lonestar.org but they didn't respond).

Did you try awk@sdf.org?

Those xyzzy.fresshell.org sites typically are run by the user named
xyzzy.

> Does anyone have any information on how to contact the providers to
> try to get that site back up?

Maybe asking in irc.libera.chat #awk would yield an answer even faster.

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If all else fails:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230127153455/http://awk.freeshell.org/

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On 5/3/23 9:27 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
> The site http://awk.freeshell.org which contains many useful awk FAQs
> has been down for months now saying:
>
> > #!/usr/pkg/bin/perl5.24.0
> >     package OddMuse;
> >     $DataDir = '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/wiki';
> >     do '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/current.pl';
>
> I've tried a few times but can't find anyone to contact about that
> (well, I found help@sdf.lonestar.org but they didn't respond).
>
> Does anyone have any information on how to contact the providers to try
> to get that site back up?

It's just a user account on sdf.org, a "public access unix system".
Probably the site broke after a recent system reconfigure. The user ID
associated is "awk" so you could contact them like any other SDF user;
I'm reluctant to post an actual email address due to potential abuse.
As it happens I have an SDF account so I will try sending an message to
user "awk" in case they are unaware of their site's breakage.

Regarding accessing the information on that site, it looks like
archive.org has a recent snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152154/http://awk.freeshell.org/

The individual code snippets also appear to be available w/o formatting
via Gopher even though the gophermap files have issues; to access do the
following:

1) run this with a Gopher client like lynx(1):

ex. lynx gopher://sdf.org/1/users/awk/index/

2) note the particular code snippet, i.e. "0Adler32Checksum", then
re-write the URL like so:

gopher://sdf.org/0/users/awk/index/Adler32Checksum

Within lynx(1) you can then print the page(s) to plain text files or use
the -dump option to do a redirect.

On 5/3/2023 11:07 AM, jeorge wrote:
> On 5/3/23 9:27 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
>> The site http://awk.freeshell.org which contains many useful awk FAQs
>> has been down for months now saying:
>>
>>  > #!/usr/pkg/bin/perl5.24.0
>>  >     package OddMuse;
>>  >     $DataDir = '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/wiki';
>>  >     do '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/current.pl';
>>
>> I've tried a few times but can't find anyone to contact about that
>> (well, I found help@sdf.lonestar.org but they didn't respond).
>>
>> Does anyone have any information on how to contact the providers to
>> try to get that site back up?
>
> It's just a user account on sdf.org, a "public access unix system".
> Probably the site broke after a recent system reconfigure.  The user ID
> associated is "awk" so you could contact them like any other SDF user;
> I'm reluctant to post an actual email address due to potential abuse.
> As it happens I have an SDF account so I will try sending an message to
> user "awk" in case they are unaware of their site's breakage.
>
> Regarding accessing the information on that site, it looks like
> archive.org has a recent snapshot:
>
>   https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152154/http://awk.freeshell.org/
>
> The individual code snippets also appear to be available w/o formatting
> via Gopher even though the gophermap files have issues; to access do the
> following:
>
>  1) run this with a Gopher client like lynx(1):
>
>     ex. lynx gopher://sdf.org/1/users/awk/index/
>
>  2) note the particular code snippet, i.e. "0Adler32Checksum", then
>     re-write the URL like so:
>
>     gopher://sdf.org/0/users/awk/index/Adler32Checksum
>
> Within lynx(1) you can then print the page(s) to plain text files or use
> the -dump option to do a redirect.
>

Thanks. I just tried emailing replacing help with awk so fingers crossed
one of us will get through but that archive will work fine for now.

Ed.

On 5/3/2023 11:50 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
> On 5/3/2023 11:07 AM, jeorge wrote:
>> On 5/3/23 9:27 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
>>> The site http://awk.freeshell.org which contains many useful awk FAQs
>>> has been down for months now saying:
>>>
>>>  > #!/usr/pkg/bin/perl5.24.0
>>>  >     package OddMuse;
>>>  >     $DataDir = '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/wiki';
>>>  >     do '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/current.pl';
>>>
>>> I've tried a few times but can't find anyone to contact about that
>>> (well, I found help@sdf.lonestar.org but they didn't respond).
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any information on how to contact the providers to
>>> try to get that site back up?
>>
>> It's just a user account on sdf.org, a "public access unix system".
>> Probably the site broke after a recent system reconfigure.  The user
>> ID associated is "awk" so you could contact them like any other SDF
>> user; I'm reluctant to post an actual email address due to potential
>> abuse.
>> As it happens I have an SDF account so I will try sending an message
>> to user "awk" in case they are unaware of their site's breakage.
>>
>> Regarding accessing the information on that site, it looks like
>> archive.org has a recent snapshot:
>>
>>    https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152154/http://awk.freeshell.org/
>>
>> The individual code snippets also appear to be available w/o
>> formatting via Gopher even though the gophermap files have issues; to
>> access do the following:
>>
>>   1) run this with a Gopher client like lynx(1):
>>
>>      ex. lynx gopher://sdf.org/1/users/awk/index/
>>
>>   2) note the particular code snippet, i.e. "0Adler32Checksum", then
>>      re-write the URL like so:
>>
>>      gopher://sdf.org/0/users/awk/index/Adler32Checksum
>>
>> Within lynx(1) you can then print the page(s) to plain text files or
>> use the -dump option to do a redirect.
>>
>
> Thanks. I just tried emailing replacing help with awk so fingers crossed
> one of us will get through but that archive will work fine for now.
>
>     Ed.

FYI someone is working on trying to restore it now, thanks.

Ed.

On 5/4/2023 7:05 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
> On 5/3/2023 11:50 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
>> On 5/3/2023 11:07 AM, jeorge wrote:
>>> On 5/3/23 9:27 AM, Ed Morton wrote:
>>>> The site http://awk.freeshell.org which contains many useful awk
>>>> FAQs has been down for months now saying:
>>>>
>>>>  > #!/usr/pkg/bin/perl5.24.0
>>>>  >     package OddMuse;
>>>>  >     $DataDir = '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/wiki';
>>>>  >     do '/sdf/arpa/af/a/awk/html/current.pl';
>>>>
>>>> I've tried a few times but can't find anyone to contact about that
>>>> (well, I found help@sdf.lonestar.org but they didn't respond).
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any information on how to contact the providers to
>>>> try to get that site back up?
>>>
>>> It's just a user account on sdf.org, a "public access unix system".
>>> Probably the site broke after a recent system reconfigure.  The user
>>> ID associated is "awk" so you could contact them like any other SDF
>>> user; I'm reluctant to post an actual email address due to potential
>>> abuse.
>>> As it happens I have an SDF account so I will try sending an message
>>> to user "awk" in case they are unaware of their site's breakage.
>>>
>>> Regarding accessing the information on that site, it looks like
>>> archive.org has a recent snapshot:
>>>
>>>    https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152154/http://awk.freeshell.org/
>>>
>>> The individual code snippets also appear to be available w/o
>>> formatting via Gopher even though the gophermap files have issues; to
>>> access do the following:
>>>
>>>   1) run this with a Gopher client like lynx(1):
>>>
>>>      ex. lynx gopher://sdf.org/1/users/awk/index/
>>>
>>>   2) note the particular code snippet, i.e. "0Adler32Checksum", then
>>>      re-write the URL like so:
>>>
>>>      gopher://sdf.org/0/users/awk/index/Adler32Checksum
>>>
>>> Within lynx(1) you can then print the page(s) to plain text files or
>>> use the -dump option to do a redirect.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. I just tried emailing replacing help with awk so fingers
>> crossed one of us will get through but that archive will work fine for
>> now.
>>
>>      Ed.
>
> FYI someone is working on trying to restore it now, thanks.
>
>     Ed.

http://awk.freeshell.org is working again now. Thanks again to jeorge
for providing the link
https://web.archive.org/web/20221013152154/http://awk.freeshell.org/
which pointed me in the right direction for someone to contact about it
being down.

Ed.