Anyone know how to contact http://awk.freeshell.org providers?

[Ed Morton]

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 he...@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.

[yeti]

Ed Morton <morto...@gmail.com> writes:

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

Did you try a...@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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[yeti]

If all else fails:

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

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[jeorge]

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.

[Ed Morton]

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.

[Ed Morton]

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

Ed.

[Ed Morton]

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.