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Martin Iturbide:
Hello Roderick

Nathan is doing a good progress with the replacement development, he has the filesearch links, search inside the "long description" text and other fixes that didn't have the original hobbes. He even coded a web form for file uploads.
Even that I share your same concerns, I say let's see how it works out and see if we can evolve from there.

The important thing to start is being able to backup "Nathan's Hobbes" files (He agreed to that), and keep uploading the backup on different places like OS2Site.com/sw.
After some days of the release we will see if this works or not, and if not, we can ask Nathan if something can be worked out.

But Roderick, I prefer if you keep going and improve OS2Site. I'm also willing to collaborate to have OS2Site as the "Main 'OLD and NEW' Repository". (Like saying HobbesArchive has the new stuff, but OS2Site/sw has everything)
I still dream of reorganizing the OS2Site.com/sw (After a full public backup in archive.org or course). I have on my hard drive (and backup) the same hobbes reorganized structure, but with the difference that I try to collect all older versions of the software. That is 56GB for the moment compared against the 18GB that Hobbes are right now. Yes, it is not "that interesting" to collect older versions of the software for some, but it is worth to be preserved and 56GB is not a lot of storage these days.

Regards

Rich Walsh:

--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on January 28, 2024, 02:21:20 pm ---I have decided to cancel work on that mirror as Nathan went ahead.

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Who is "Nathan"?  And why would you (or any of us) care what "Nathan" is doing?

mike:
Hobbes was running fine for decades so it was a surprise that there was still a contact in recent times to the NMSU and that Martin could start the reorganization.
Like others already pointed out the cause for the shutdown is most likely because of a retirement in the staff. It would be nice when they could share the scripts and config of the server to have the same user experience in the future just on a different URL with includes the hobbes name.
The current os2site is not a hobbes mirror and has different file set and structure.


Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Rich Walsh on January 28, 2024, 05:31:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on January 28, 2024, 02:21:20 pm ---I have decided to cancel work on that mirror as Nathan went ahead.

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Who is "Nathan"?  And why would you (or any of us) care what "Nathan" is doing?

--- End quote ---

Nathan Woodruff, hobbesarchive.com. Long discussion on warp.groups.io

David Graser:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on January 28, 2024, 07:17:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: Rich Walsh on January 28, 2024, 05:31:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on January 28, 2024, 02:21:20 pm ---I have decided to cancel work on that mirror as Nathan went ahead.

--- End quote ---

Who is "Nathan"?  And why would you (or any of us) care what "Nathan" is doing?

--- End quote ---

Nathan Woodruff, hobbesarchive.com. Long discussion on warp.groups.io

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Nathan has been around for a long time like the rest of us.  Unfortunately, he does not appear to utilize the forums of this site.  I remember he wrote a database program to go along with what I believe was IBMs.

 I followed the email from the newletters being sent from that newsgroup.  He managed to rewrite the Hobbes database program from scratch in 3 days.  It looks and feels like the Hobbes, but he has enhanced the search engine.

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