Note from the Info-Mac Archive:
We ask that you use our mirrors INSTEAD OF our server, because the load there now makes it difficult for us to manage the archive!We cannot vouch for the quality of any mirror sites that are not listed here, since they are not in touch with us. If you know of a mirror site not listed here, please inform us by email to
info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Each entry in the list below contains:
internet address internet number archive directory #/#
contents access methods
organization, city, [state,] country
[notes about the site]
internet number
Try using this number if the internet address doesn't work
#/#
The number of updates made to the mirror per number of days.
(ie: 1/1 is once a day, 1/14 is once every two weeks.)
contents
ALL -- the site carries all directories in the archive
RECENT -- the site only carries files added within the past year or so.
VERY-RECENT -- the site only carries files added within the past few months.
archie.au 139.130.4.6 /micros/mac/info-mac 1/1 RECENT ALL ftp gopher AARNet, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ftp.univie.ac.at 131.130.1.4 /mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher Vienna University, Vienna, Austria ftp.ucs.ubc.ca 137.82.27.62 /pub/mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ftp.funet.fi 128.214.248.6 /pub/mac/info-mac 1/1 VERY-RECENT ALL ftp gopher Finnish Academic and Research Network FUNET, Espoo, Finland ftp.jyu.fi 130.234.1.1 /info-mac 2/1 RECENT ALL ftp Jyvaskyla University, Jyvaskyla, Finland all binhex converted to macbinary ftp.ibp.fr 132.227.60.2 /pub/mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp Institut Blaise Pascal, Paris, France ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.14.17.7 /pub/mac/info-mac 1/1 RECENT ALL ftp gopher email Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany email service: mail-server@cs.tu-berlin.de ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 130.75.2.2 /pub/info-mac 3/7 RECENT ALL ftp University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 /pub/info-mac 1/1 VERY-RECENT app cfg cmp comm dev disk gui nwt prn sci text vir ftp gopher University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany gopher available via gopher.uni-kl.de ftp.uni-stuttgart.de 129.69.8.13 /pub/systems/mac/info-mac 1/7 vir card gui comm sci cmp prn cfg text nwt ftp Rechenzentrum Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany ftp.technion.ac.il 132.68.1.10 /pub/unsupported/mac/info-mac 2/1 ALL ftp gopher Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel also GopherMail access ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp 133.1.4.10 /info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp Osaka University, Osaka, Japan updating from U of Tokyo ftp.iij.ad.jp 192.244.176.50 /pub/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp email Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan email service: archive-server@iij.ad.jp ("help" in message body for info) ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp 130.69.254.254 /pub/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan info.nic.surfnet.nl 192.87.46.3 /mirror-archive/software/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher email www SURFnet, Utrecht, Netherlands ftp.fenk.wau.nl 137.224.129.4 /pub/mac/info-mac 2/1 RECENT ALL ftp gopher Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands ftp.nus.sg 137.132.9.11 /pub/z5/mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore king.ncb.gov.sg 160.96.3.121 /sumex 1/2 RECENT ALL ftp gopher Digital Media Centre, Singapore, Singapore ftp.lth.se 130.235.20.3 /mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden 4 users allowed during work hours (8-5 GMT), 8 other times ftp.sunet.se 130.238.127.3 /pub/mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher fsp Swedish University Network, Uppsala, Sweden email and web access will be added soon ftp.switch.ch 130.59.1.40 /mirror/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher SWITCH, Zurich, Switzerland imftp.mgt.ncu.edu.tw 140.115.83.90 /pub/mac/info-mac 6/7 ALL ftp National Central University, ChungLi, Taiwan ftp.edu.tw 140.111.1.10 /Macintosh/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp fsp afs National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan src.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.10 /packages/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp email gopher web fsp ftam telnet Imperial College, London, UK email service: ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk amug.org 165.247.10.2 /pub/ftp1/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp email Arizona Macintosh Users Group, Phoenix, Arizona, USA email service: not running yet ici.proper.com 165.227.249.2 /mac 1/1 cmp comm help info per vir gopher www Proper Publishing, Santa Cruz, California, USA Has index of Internet Mac info & mirror of Mac FAQs from rtfm.mit.edu ftp.hawaii.edu 128.171.44.70 /mirrors/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA daemon.ncsa.uiuc.edu 141.142.22.33 /Info-Mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher AppleShare AppleSearch NCSA, Champaign, Illinois, USA mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu 128.174.201.12 /pub/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA may add gopher support soon grind.isca.uiowa.edu 128.255.21.233 /mac/infomac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher telnet University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA macbinary; telnet access for kermit and zmodem download with search functions cybermac.com [NA] Archives:Macintosh 1/7 RECENT dial-in CyberMac BBS, Baltimore, Maryland, USA FirstClass BBS at 410-668-3903; connections to Internet, OneNet, Fidonet hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu 18.111.0.152 1/1 ALL http Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 systems/mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher fsp Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA ricevm1.rice.edu 128.42.30.2 [NA] 1/1 RECENT ALL email Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA email service: LISTSERV@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU; for help "$MACARCH HELP" in message ftp.uu.net 192.48.96.9 archive/systems/mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp UUNET Technologies, Falls Church, Virginia, USA ftp.tidbits.com 192.135.191.2 pub/tidbits/tisk 1/1 comm ftp email TidBITS / Internet Starter Kit, Bellevue, Washington, USA email service: archive-server@halcyon.com ("help" in message body for info)
DREA, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada LAAS - CNRS, Toulouse, France Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel accessible only via the Israeli Appletalk WAN Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan EuroNet Internet bv, Amsterdam, Netherlands accessible to subscribers of EuroNet and NLnet, and connected sites University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA might provide public access via e-mail University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA accessible via gopher and ColumbiaNet Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA accessible locally by ftp, gopher & appletalk; contact a CSR for information
This page is based on version 3.9.1 of the information maintained by Bruce Grubb (with permission). Corrections and/or additions should be sent to him (although it would be nice to notify the owner of this page also). The original list is copyrighted 1991 by Mike Gleason.
This is a wide Mosaic page. If you cannot read the end of this sentence, you need to make your window wider.
November 1 1994, version 3.9.1
From: bruce grubb
This is a update to Mike Gleason's ftp list {He gave me permision to continue it}. It lists a good number of mac anonymous ftp sites with notes on some and a little blurb on how to use anonymous ftp.
Revisions posted monthly to the USENET newsgroups comp.sys.mac.comm, comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.apps, and comp.sys.mac.games.
Archived as a text file on sumex-aim.stanford.edu, mac.archive.umich.edu and their mirrors via e-mail to macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu {see sumex-aim.stanford.edu note for details} and as a .sit file on Compuserve {Internet Forum} and AOL. Also available via e-mail through macftp@integra.jsc.nasa.gov
Copyright 1994 by Bruce Grubb with document concept and portions of its text Copyright 1991 by Mike Gleason. May be freely distributed and archived.
Please send newly discovered macintosh sites (with IP numbers and directories to check if possible), bug fixes, and comments to:
Internet: BruceG6069@aol.com
AOL: BruceG6069
{AOL can only handle <27K e-mail so keep messages short}
The first column of stuff in the data below is the site name. Usually you can just run ftp and type open and then the site name. But some computers don't like the names (or don't have all of them) and prefer the next column of stuff, the IP addresses. If you try the open command with the IP number and it doesn't bite, it isn't gonna work. Most mac ftp sites have encoded their files with BinHex 4.0 which end in the suffix ".hqx". To decode these files, you can just download them to your mac, and use Compact Pro or Stuffit to decode them. THEN, you will need to decompress them. Stuffit files end in ".sit" while Compact Pro files end in ".cpt" but you will probably only want to use Stuffit as it can decompress both formats. When ftp prompts you for a username and password, send "anonymous" as the username, and your email address as the password, for Mike Gleason it would be mgleason@cse.unl.edu. Here's a sample ftp session:
% ftp ftp> open wuarchive.wustl.edu Connected to wuarchive.wustl.edu. 220 wuarchive.wustl.edu FTP server (...) ready. Name (wuarchive.wustl.edu:bgrubb): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password (wuarchive.wustl.edu:anonymous): bgrubb@scf.nmsu.edu 230- If your FTP client crashes or hangs shortly after login please try 230- using a dash (-) as the first character of your password. This will 230- turn off the informational messages that may be confusing your FTP 230- client. 230- 230- You are user number 221 out of a possible 225. 230- 230- All transfers to and from wuarchive are logged. If you don't like 230- this then disconnect now! 230- ftp> cd systems/mac ftp> get ./info-mac/help/recent-files.txt SumexRecentFiles ftp> get ./umich.edu/mac/00help/newfiles.txt umichRecentFiles ftp> get ./info-mac/game/cumulonimbus.hqx cn.hqx ftp> quit % sz cn.hqx
Keep in mind that some sites may disable the anonymous login for a while: during certain hours of the day, for maintainance reasons, or due to too much heavy traffic. Most will tell you the reason for refusing anonymous login, but a few will say nothing more than "User anonymous unknown" or "connection refused". Keep this in mind when a site on this list results in either of these responses.
If you want to read a file on a remote site, but don't want download it, quit ftp, page the file, then restart ftp, try "get myfile.txt -" and ftp will dump the file to your terminal. Also exploit ftp's pipe and shell abilities, like "get myfile.txt |more" will do the same as above, except using "more" to page the file.
If you need to know the IP address of an ftp site, a common unix program called "nslookup" can help. With some versions, "nslookup ftp.apple.com" would spit out "130.43.2.3." The reverse is also true, "nslookup 130.43.2.3" would print out "ftp.apple.com." Normally nslookup on an IP address just verifies the address as valid and to do a reverse lookup you must reverse the address and use the in-addr.arpa domain with the lookup type set to "ANY."
Most files you'll get off ftp are in that pain in the butt format, binhex. Mike Gleason usually downloaded to his unix box, and then used an immensely useful utility called "mcvert" to de-binhex them there. Not only is this faster, but it doesn't tie up your own CPU. Stop over to one of the sumex mirrors {info-mac/cmp directory} and grab it. After mcvert'ing files, they'll turn into files with ".bin" suffix on them, meaning they are in MacBinary format, and ready to download.
CAUTION: Do _not_ confuse .z {gzip} with .Z {format that gzip is aimed at replacing}. These are totally _different_ unix compression formats; in an effort to prevent further confusion gzip files are now supposed to use the .gz extension.
WARNING: make sure that the communication program is in BINARY mode or downloading of ".bin" and "unpacked" programs won't work. For example, Kermit's binary mode on some Unix machines is accessed by typing 'kermit -i' at the promt. BINARY mode is also called IMAGE mode.
Here's a handy chart to keep track which programs unmangle which formats:
unix .gz/.z .uu/
Macintosh .cpt .sit .hqx .bin .zip .dd .lzh .Z {gzip} .tar .arc .uue
Stuffit Expander* D D D D
w/ DSEE* D X X X D D D D D
StuffIt Lite** D X X X
w/ translators** D X X X D X X D X
StuffIt Deluxe** D X X X D X X D X
SITcomm*** D X X X D ? X X D X
ArcMac X
BinHex 4.0 X
BinHex 5.0 X X
Compact Pro X D/N X
DDExpand 4.0 D D
Disk Doubler D X
MacCompress X
MacGzip X X
MacLHA X
SunTar 2.0b12 X X X D
Tar 4.0b X
UnZip D
UU Lite X
UUTool X
ZipIt D D X
Other unix .gz/.z .uu/
computers .cpt .sit .hqx .bin .zip .dd .lzh .Z {gzip} .tar .arc .uue
mcvert (unix) X X
PKZIP (DOS) X
unpack (unix) D X/?
unsitins.exe D
N = Cannot decode .sit dlx files
D = Decode only
X = Encode and decode
.sit refers to both 1.5 and dlx. Otherwise a '/' is used {1.5/dlx}.
.arj - PC format common to Europian sites.
.pit - old commpression format {~1989} created by PackIt programs that has
been replaced by .sit. In general, a program that handles .sit files can
unmangle .pit files as well.
.sea - decompresses itself and needs no external programs.
.tgz - another name for .tar.z {do not confuse with .tar.Z}.
.txt - ASCII text file.
* DropStuff with Expander Enhancer is an addon for Stuffit Expander.
Wait for the 3.5.1 version. Avoid 3.5B and 3.5 because they will stop
working on Aug 16, 1994.
** Stuffit Deluxe translators can be used with Stuffit Lite. Current
versions are 3.0.7 as of this writing.
*** SITcomm is communications program from Aladdin that uses the Stuffit
translators.
Special note: .hqx and .uu files are the ONLY files that can be downloaded in ASCII mode; all others must be downloaded in BINARY mode for the file to decompress properly. Otherwise you will get errors like "unreadable file" or "file is corrupt" when you try to decompress them.
These sites have many mac files, and are still getting new ones:
dipmat.unife.it 192.167.208.253 See Note 1 ezinfo.ethz.ch 129.132.2.72 /mac.dir 2 ftp.apple.com 130.43.2.3 /dts 3 ftp.austin.apple.com 17.127.4.50 /Apple.Support.Area {see note} 4 ftpbio.bgsu.edu 129.1.252.66 /ftp/pub/alt.sources.mac ftp.funet.fi 128.214.6.100 /pub/mac 5 ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 /pub/mac ftp.support.apple.com 130.43.6.3 See Note 6 ftp.switch.ch 130.59.1.40 limited access, See Note 7 ftp.utexas.edu 128.83.185.16 /pub/mac 8 irisa.irisa.fr 131.254.254.2 /News/comp.binaries.mac 9 mac.archive.umich.edu 141.211.32.2 /mac 10 micros.hensa.ac.uk 148.88.8.84 /micros/mac 11 sumex-aim.stanford.edu 36.44.0.6 /info-mac {see note} 12
These sites are home to a few specific file(s) or file types:
abs.apple.com 130.43.1.101 /abs /pub (apple, MAE) alfred.ccs.carleton.ca 134.117.1.1 /pub/pov-ray (PoV-Ray) archives.math.utk.edu 128.169.202.163 /mac (Mathematics) 13 arthur.cs.purdue.edu 128.10.2.1 /pub/trinkle (mac32.tar.Z) atg.apple.com 17.255.4.30 /pub (programming) atlas.chem.utah.edu 128.110.196.10 /topsoft (Programming?} aux.support.apple.com 130.43.6.2 / (A/UX stuff) bert.cs.byu.edu 128.187.2.20 /NCSA_Telnet (BYU's version) biom3.univ-lyon1.fr 134.214.100.42 /pub (MacMul, GraphMu) boombox.micro.umn.edu 128.101.95.95 /pub (gopher, POPmail, more) brownvm.brown.edu 128.148.128.40 / (tn3270, term, lpr) cambridge.apple.com 198.112.73.3 /pub {Mac Common LISP} cassandra.ucr.edu 138.23.90.119 /pub/apple2 (][+ emulator) cecelia.media.mit.edu 18.85.0.104 /pub (CSound) chook.cs.adelaide.edu.au 129.127.8.8 /pub/VHDL-Cookbook cs.orst.edu 128.193.32.1 /pub/mac (lab-logger) cs.rice.edu 128.42.1.30 /public/mac (Eudora; Telebite) csd4.csd.uwm.edu 129.89.7.4 /pub/mac (StuffIt, Gatekeeper, Old) d31rz0.stanford.edu 36.76.0.151 /Igor (Igor demos, utilities) devtools.symantec.com 155.64.82.86 /ftp/Macintosh (molecular biology) fiji.wri.com 140.177.10.76 /pub (Mathematica) ftp-boi.external.hp.com 192.6.71.2 /pub (HP) ftp.acns.nwu.edu 129.105.16.52 /pub/disinfectant (Disinf HQ) 14 ftp.adobe.com 130.248.1.4 /pub/adobe (Abobe) ftp.amug.org 165.247.10.2 /pub/newton (newton) ftp.att.com 192.20.239.133 /pub/afterdark (programmer's list) ftp.cambridge.apple.com 198.112.73.3 /pub ftp.cayman.com 143.137.1.2 /pub (GatorBox stuff) ftp.cc.purdue.edu 128.210.10.6 /pub/mac (RevRdist) ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca 130.179.16.24 /Mac-Develop/Newton/Incoming ftp.cc.utexas.edu 128.83.186.13 /microlib/mac (Gatekeeper HQ) 15 ftp.csua.berkeley.edu 128.32.149.19 /pub/jwang (compatibility/AV info) ftp.dartmouth.edu 129.170.16.54 /pub/mac (Dartmouth XCMDs, etc) ftp.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at 140.78.3.8 /pub/mac/system ftp.embl-heidelberg.de 192.54.41.33 /pub/software/mac ftp.globalvillag.com 192.187.202.60 /pub/software (communications) ftp.gsfc.nasa.gov 140.78.3.8 /mac (MacSecure.3.1.hqx) ftp.gte.com 132.197.8.2 /pub/chuck (Chassis, sample code) ftp.imag.fr 129.88.32.1 /pub/Cabri, /archive/macintosh 16 ftp.maui.com 199.4.33.101 /pub/mauisw (TimeTracker) ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu 141.142.20.50 /Mac (NCSA Telnet, etc) 17 ftp.novell.com 137.65.1.3 /pub2/MAC (Novell) ftp.primate.wisc.edu 144.92.43.11 /pub/mac (TransSkel & misc) 18 ftp.psi.com 136.161.128.3 /wp (PSIWP, an X.500 client) ftp.qualcomm.com 192.35.156.5 / (Eudora) ftp.radius.com 140.82.20.1 /pub/radius/software/mac (radius) ftp.rasterops.com 192.124.147.42 /pub/Macintosh (rasterops) ftp.sri.ucl.ac.be 130.104.1.1 /pub (network, French versions) ftp.stat.ucla.edu 128.97.4.153 /pub (statistics tools) ftp.stolaf.edu 130.71.128.9 /pub/macpsych (psychology) ftp.utas.edu.au 131.217.10.1 /mac (Mews) ftp.uu.net 192.48.96.9 /languages/abc (ABC prog lang) 19 ftp.wimsey.com 198.162.16.1 /pub/mac (Internet communications) ftpbio.bgsu.edu 129.1.252.66 /ftp/pub (alt.sources.mac archive) gaea.kgs.ukans.edu 129.237.140.40 / (scripting) geom.umn.edu 128.101.25.35 /pub/software/snappea (Snap pea) hensel.mathp6.jussieu.fr 134.157.51.2 /dist/pari/mac (pari/Math) hobbes.lbl.gov 128.3.12.38 /pub/mac (Radiance) jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov 128.183.44.1 /pub/aux (A/UX) ics.uci.edu 128.195.1.1 /mac/think-c 20 iraun1.ira.uka.de 129.13.10.90 /pub/mac (SingleShare,NewsView) linc.cis.upenn.edu 130.91.6.8 /pub/NH3.1 (NetHack archive list) midway.uchicago.edu 128.135.12.73 /pub/OzTex mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu 128.174.201.12 /etext (Project Gutenberg) munnari.oz.au 128.250.1.21 /mac (CAP, Multigate stuff) 21 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 130.14.25.1 /entrez 22 neptune.ethz.ch 129.132.101.33 /Oberon/MacII, /XYZ (MacOberon) newton.uiowa.edu 128.255.63.55 /pub/newton (newton) novamail.cerl.uiuc.edu 128.174.180.9 /pub/lime (Lime demo, for MIDI) oddjob.uchicago.edu 128.135.4.2 /pub/MAC/Yerk otter.stanford.edu 36.21.0.104 /mma, /mac (Mathematica) pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu 128.146.37.18 /mac (LabanWriter) Phantom.ucc.uconn.edu 137.99.29.55 /Network (Network) rascal.ics.utexas.edu 128.83.138.20 /mac/virus (Antivirals) 23 rever.nmsu.edu 128.123.3.18 /pub/macfaq 24 seeding.apple.com 130.43.3.3 /ess/public (Apple OS tools) sol.bucknell.edu 134.82.1.8 /pub/mac (Excalibur, Gatekeeper} ssyx.ucsc.edu 128.114.133.1 /pub/mac (HyperUnix, ClientDA) statlab.uni-heidelberg.de 129.206.113.100 /pub/network (NetWork stuff) suniams1.statistik.tu-muenchen.de 131.159.64.1 /incoming/MacMiNT (MacMiNT) tau.sm.luth.se 130.240.0.3 /pub/mac/nisus (macros, etc) terminator.cc.umich.edu 141.211.164.8 /x500 (maX.500 white pages) walrus.wr.usgs.gov 130.118.7.254 /pub/mac (Geology) zippy.nimh.nih.gov 128.231.98.32 /pub/nih-image (NIH-Image)
These sites are shadow/mirror archives (the same stuff) of something else:
anl.anl.fr 192.54.179.1 /pub/mac/umich [umich] archie.au 139.130.4.6 /micros/mac [sumex, umich] archive.orst.edu 128.193.4.2 /pub/mirrors/archive.umich.edu cnuce_arch.cnr.it 131.114.1.10 /pub/info-mac [sumex] crystal.ualr.edu 144.167.10.24 /mac/info-mac [sumex] daemon.ncsa.uiuc.edu 141.142.22.33 /Info-Mac-Binaries ftp.amug.org 165.247.10.2 /pub/info-mac [sumex] ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp 133.1.4.10 /info-mac [sumex] ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7 /pub/mac [sumex] 25 ftp.edu.tw 140.111.1.10 /Macintosh/info-mac ftp.fenk.wau.nl 137.224.129.4 /pub/mac/info-mac [sumex] ftp.gsfc.nasa.gov 128.183.10.134 /mac.dir [dftsrv.gov] ftp.hawaii.edu 128.171.44.70 /mirrors/info-mac [sumex] ftp.ibp.fr 132.227.60.2 /pub/mac/info-mac ftp.iij.ad.jp 192.244.176.50 /pub/info-mac [sumex] ftp.inter.spin.ad.jp 165.76.8.4 /pub/Mac/Merit.mirror ftp.jyu.fi 130.234.1.1 /info-mac [sumex] ftp.loria.fr 152.81.10.10 /pub/mac:umich ftp.lth.se 130.235.20.3 /mac [sumex] 26 ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 /pub/mac/info-mac [sumex] ftp.nus.sg 137.132.9.11 /pub/zk/mac [sumex, 14 day delay] ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 130.75.2.2 /ftp1/mac, pub/info-mac [sumex] ftp.sunet.se 130.238.127.3 /pub/mac [sumex, umich] 27 ftp.switch.ch 130.59.1.40 limited access 7 ftp.technion.ac.il 132.68.7.8 /pub/unsupported/mac [sumex, umich] ftp.tidbits.com 192.135.191.2 /pub/tidbits/tisk [sumex] ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp 130.69.254.254 /pub/info-mac [sumex] ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 /pub/info-mac [sumex, partial] ftp.uni-paderborn.de 131.234.2.32 /mac ftp.uni-stuttgart.de 129.69.8.13 /soft/mac [sumex, partial] ftp.univie.ac.at 131.130.1.4 /mac/info-mac [sumex] ftp.ucs.ubc.ca 137.82.27.62 /pub/mac/info-mac [sumex] ftp.uu.net 192.48.96.9 /archive/systems/mac/info-mac ftp.uwtc.washington.edu 128.95.202.40 /pub/Macintosh [collection] ftphost.aukuni.ac.nz 130.216.3.1 /mac [sumex] garbo.uwasa.fi 128.214.87.1 /mac [funet] giza.cis.ohio-state.edu 128.146.8.61 /pub/oztex [midway] grind.isca.uiowa.edu 128.255.200.3 /mac [sumex, umich] 28 imftp.mgt.ncu.edu.tw 140.115.83.90 /pub/mac/info-mac [sumex] info.nic.surfnet.nl 192.87.46.3 /mirror-archive/software/info-mac jyu.fi 128.214.7.5 /maclib [sumex] king.ncb.gov.sg 160.96.3.121 /sumex mirror.archive.umich.edu Special see mac.archive.umich.edu note 10 mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu 128.174.201.12 /pub/mac; /pub/info-mac [sumex] nctuccca.edu.tw 192.83.166.10 /Macintosh/umich-mac [umich] oswego.oswego.edu 129.3.1.1 /pub/mac [collection] proper.com 165.227.25.1 /mac/general [sumex] ricevm1.rice.edu 128.42.30.2 /{NA, email/Bitnet} shark.mel.dit.csiro.au 144.110.16.11 /info-mac [sumex] src.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.10 /computing/systems/mac/info-mac 29 155.198.1.40 utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp 133.11.11.11 /Mac, /Mac/info-mac [sumex] watmsg.waterloo.edu 129.97.129.9 /pub/oztex [midway] wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 /systems/mac {See note} 30
These sites have just a few mac files:
beach.utmb.edu 129.109.1.207 /pub/virus/mac {Old, VMS} bode.ee.ualberta.ca 129.128.16.96 /pub/mac crab.rutgers.edu 128.6.128.6 /pub/mac eff.org 192.88.144.3 /pub/mac fs-1.iastate.edu 129.186.151.151 /pub/mac ftp.lu.se 130.235.132.90 /pub/mac {use ftp.lth.se} ftp.nevada.edu 131.216.1.11 /pub/heathers (sounds) ftp.std.com 192.74.137.7 /pub/jah/mac (sound) genbank.bio.net 134.172.1.160 /pub/mac hpcsos.col.hp.com 15.255.240.16 /packet/mac icarus.cns.syr.edu 128.230.1.49 /software/mac (w/ Unix_Mac) icarus.riacs.edu 134.12.1.1 /pub mailer.cc.fsu.edu 128.186.6.103 /pub/mac procyon.cis.ksu.edu 129.130.10.80 /pub/Macintosh splicer.cba.hawaii.edu 128.171.17.7 /mac teetot.acusd.edu 192.55.87.19 /pub/Macintosh/SuperCard tolsun.oulu.fi 128.214.5.6 /pub/mac ucsd.edu 128.54.16.1 /midi/software/mac, /pub/mac
These sites have a lot of files, but do not get much new:
f.ms.uky.edu 128.163.128.6 /pub/mac [sumex <02/21/93] ftp.bio.indiana.edu 129.79.224.50 / (large science archive) 31 ftp.cso.uiuc.edu 128.174.5.59 /mac/MUG 32 joker.optics.rochester.edu 128.151.240.1 /mac (sounds) merlin.cs.purdue.edu 128.10.2.3 /pub/mac micros.hensa.ac.uk 148.88.8.84 /micros/mac oak.oakland.edu 141.210.10.117 /pub2/macintosh plains.nodak.edu 134.129.111.64 /pub/mac/pub pomme.src.umd.edu 128.8.111.252 /info-mac [sumex <02/20/93] ra.nrl.navy.mil 128.60.0.21 /MacSciTech
These Mac sites no longer exist or have major problems:
apple.com 130.43.2.2 see ftp.apple.com 3 ccb.ucsf.edu 128.218.1.14 Mac files removed dartvax.dartmouth.edu 129.170.16.4 see ftp.dartmouth.edu dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov 128.183.10.3 see ftp.gsfc.nasa.gov impaqt1.mem.drexel.edu 129.25.10.1 site gone kth.se 130.237.72.201 being overhauled lth.se 130.235.16.3 see ftp.lth.se 26 mcsun.eu.net 192.16.202.1 /comp/mac directory gone sics.se 192.16.123.90 see ftp.lth.se 26 slug.pws.bull.com 128.35.10.203 see irisa.irisa.fr spider.navsses.navy.mil 157.187.16.101 site being phased out toklab.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp 133.1.12.100 see ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp 133.11.11.11 see ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp wsmr-simtel20.army.mil 26.2.0.74 see wuarchie.wustl.edu 30
Current archie servers (as of June 21, 1994):
archie.ac.il 132.65.16.18 Israel archie.ans.net 147.225.1.10 ANS, NY, USA archie.au 139.130.4.6 Deakin University, Geelong,Australia archie.cs.mcgill.ca 132.206.51.250 Canada archie.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.10 Imperial College, London, UK archie.foretune.co.jp 133.123.1.1 Japan (regional server) archie.funet.fi 128.214.6.102 FUnet, Helsinki, Finland archie.hana.nm.kr 128.134.1.1 Korea archie.hensa.ac.uk 129.12.21.25 United Kingdom archie.internic.net 198.48.45.10 NJ, USA archie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp 130.54.23.2 Japan archie.kyoto-u.ac.jp 130.54.20.1 Japan (regional server) archie.luth.se 130.240.12.30 Sweden archie.ncu.edu.tw 192.83.166.12 Taiwan archie.nz 130.195.9.4 New Zealand archie.rediris.es 130.206.1.2 Spain archie.rutgers.edu 128.6.18.15 Piscataway, NJ, USA archie.sogang.ac.kr 163.239.1.11 Korea archie.sura.net 128.167.254.179 SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA archie.switch.ch 139.59.1.40 SWITCH, Zurich, Switzerland archie.th-darmstadt.de 130.83.128.118 Germany archie.twnic.net 192.83.166.10 Taiwan archie.uni-linz.ac.at 140.78.3.8 Austria archie.uninett.no 128.39.2.20 Norway archie.unipi.it 131.114.21.10 Italy archie.univ-rennes1.fr 129.20.128.38 France archie.univie.ac.at 131.130.1.23 Austria archie.unl.edu 129.93.1.14 Lincoln, NE, USA archie.uqam.ca 132.208.250.10 Canada archie.wide.ad.jp 133.4.3.6 Japan Note: "If you're on the Internet, you can "telnet [site name]" and login in as "archie", at which point you'll get basic directions and pointers to other Archie machines." (TidBITS#130; Gateways 1: Internet)
Notes on some of the above sites:
1. dipmat.unife.it (192.167.208.253) "/* Dipmat files/Software Macintosh" Reasonablly large site with a good selection of software. "It contains a small, but rather up-to-date collection of essential Macintosh software, a scientific bibliography (mainly mathematics, but also, for example, files about Mensa and gifted children), some local stuff." (ESG%IFEUNIV.bitnet@icineca.cineca.it). Its only problem is that spaces are used and so directory and file names MUST be in "...", otherwise command failed (Directory not found), or command failed (file not found) will result. 2. ezinfo.ethz.ch (129.132.2.72) /mac While ezinfo is primarily a BBS for Users in Switzerland and Europe, this host also provides anonymous FTP and DECNET access to its archives. Preferrably use night hours as the BBS is heavily used by local users during daytime hours. Guests can only see 50% of the menus on the BBS. The Macintosh files are taken from comp.binaries.mac, with local uploads now and then. Recent files are stored in ./mac/news/ for one month before being redistributed in their respective directories. HOW TO UPLOAD: mail .hqx files to danny@ezinfo.ethz.ch TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. RECENT FILES: see above. HELP: eis_manager@ezinfo.ethz.ch 3. ftp.apple.com (130.43.2.3) /dts This is Apple's official ftp site to supply the world with System software {up to 7.0.1}, utilities, technical notes, sample source code, press release archives, and developer tools. Callers outside America are restricted to what they can download. ALL FILES: /dts/help/dir-files-all RECENT FILES: /dts/help/dir-files-recent HELP: /help, or mail mjohnson@apple.com. TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 4. ftp.austin.apple.com (17.127.4.50) /Apple.Support.Area/Apple.SW.Updates This is one of Apples' "seeding" sites. Most of the software is in the /Apple.Support.Area/Apple.SW.Updates directory. As with ftp.apple.com callers outside America are restricted as to what they can download. 5. ftp.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) /pub/mac A very large European site that shadows Sumex-aim and gets its own original files sometimes. Non-Europeans shouldn't call often, to keep costs down. It also serves as an European archie host (archie.funet.fi). ALL FILES: /pub/mac/_file.lst RECENT FILES: /pub/mac/ChangeLog HELP: /pub/mac/HELP HOW TO UPLOAD: Use ftp to put files into /pub/mac/incoming. TRANSFER MODE: Use BINARY (IMAGE). 6. ftp.support.apple.com (130.43.6.3) "/pub/Apple SW Updates" AppleLink and E-World mirror. "Since this is a real mirror copy of the archive on AppleLink you may encounter some interesting directory and file names. To get around these intersting names simply use quotes ("") to encapsulate the path. You may also run into another problem with non- printable (>ascii 127) characters in filenames. Use mget Mac* to retrieve a file that starts with Mac and also contains non-printable and thus non-typeable characters." (brooks@ftp.support.apple.com (Kevin Brooks)) I assume that as is the case with ftp.apple.com callers outside America are restricted as to what they can download. 7. ftp.switch.ch (130.59.1.40) /software/mac /mirror/info-mac /mirror/umich-mac /mirror/Oberon/MacII Also known as nic.switch.ch. "Access to this FTP service is exclusively allowed for - Swiss universities, schools & organisations with a SWITCH service contract, - foreign education & research organisations. If you do not belong to one of these categories, you are NOT allowed to log in as 'anonymous' or 'ftp'. With one of the special user-ids, like 'public', a restricted access is open to everyone." (FTP login message). 8. ftp.utexas.edu (128.83.185.16) /pub/mac Also known as mojo.ots.utexas.edu. This is an Mac freeware and shareware archive operated by Chris Johnson on one or more systems run by the Univeristy of Texas System Office of Telcommunication Services. It also has SLIPtelnet in the /pub/slip/mac/ncsa directory. 9. irisa.irisa.fr (131.254.2.3) /News/comp.binaries.mac They keep archives of the postings to the comp.binaries.mac newsgroup. The files all stored in one huge directory, so instead of doing an 'ls', get the index file to look at offline. ALL FILES: /News/comp.binaries.mac/index HOW TO UPLOAD: Post to the comp.binaries.mac USENET group. TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 10. mac.archive.umich.edu (141.211.32.2) /mac This big site has a large number of files, many of them unique. There are many outline fonts here {Adobe type 1, type 3, and TrueType}. About the only gripe I have is the tremendous number of subdirectories, e.g. /mac/system.extensions/font/truetype... but that's a small price to pay for the work they have put into this site. mirror.archive.umich.edu is a special pointer that will randomly connect you to one of the mac.archive.umich.edu mirrors. ALL FILES: /mac/00help/index.txt RECENT FILES: /mac/00help/newfiles.txt IN QUEUE: Look in the /mac/incoming directory. HELP: /mac/00help HOW TO UPLOAD: ftp-put files in the /mac/incoming directory or e-mail to macgifts@mac.archive.umich.edu {e-mail results in crossposting to other archives} TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII for .hqx files, BINARY for everything else. 11. micros.hensa.ac.uk 148.88.8.84 /micros/mac Has an awkward way naming their directories with letters of the alphabet and numbers, so one has to get the index files in the directories first to see what they have. (Wojtek Rypniewski wojtek@embl-hamburg.de) 12. sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6) /info-mac The king of macintosh ftp sites. If you want your uploads to get a wide distribution, this is the place to send them to. They also have their own message "list", the info-mac digests which is handy for those who don't have USENET access. "We ask that you use our mirrors INSTEAD of our server, because the load there now makes it difficult for us to manage the archive!" (Info-Mac Archive Mirror Sites) ALL FILES: /info-mac/help/all-files.txt RECENT FILES: /info-mac/help/recent-files.txt HELP: Look in the /info-mac/help directory, read them all. HOW TO UPLOAD: email posts or files to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu emailing to macgifts@mac.archive.umich.edu also works as does macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 13. archives.math.utk.edu (128.169.202.163) /mac A site for shareware and public domain software suitable for use in mathematics education at the college and university level. Both anonymous ftp and gopher access are supported (gopher using port 70). Gopher access also supports WAIS searching of abstracts as well as numerous gopher links to other sites of mathematical interest. 14. ftp.acns.nwu.edu (129.105.113.52 129.105.49.1) /pub The headquarters of John Norstad's excellent anti-virus program, Disinfectant {/pub/disinfectant}. Other interesting /pub directories are: /pub/newswatcher; /pub/nupop; and /pub/ph. TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 15. ftp.cc.utexas.edu (128.83.186.13) /microlib/mac Also known as microlib.cc.utexas.edu. University of Texas at Austin Computation Center's Macintosh software archive, and headquarters of Chris Johnson's anti-virus utility Gatekeeper. Has an editorial policy on what programs it accepts. You can also subscribe to their mailing list (email to chrisj@emx.utexas.edu or chrisj@mail.utexas.edu and ask) to get informed when new additions arrive {chrisj@mail.utexas.edu is faster.} ALL FILES: /microlib/mac/file-list.txt RECENT FILES: Get the file called "Update-[date]" in /microlib/mac. HOW TO UPLOAD: email to macgifts@mac.archive.umich.edu {also results in cross-posting to other archives.} TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 16. ftp.imag.fr (129.88.32.1) /pub/Cabri, /archive/macintosh Not only is this the home of the CABRI (graph, geometry) software, but they are also nice enough to keep the most recent uploads to comp.binaries.mac, in MacBinary format. It is recommended that CABRI be retrieved from wuarchive.wustl.edu TRANSFER MODE: Use BINARY (IMAGE). 17. ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (141.142.20.50) /Mac Also know as zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu. NCSA keeps Telnet, ContigAsm, Contour, DataScope, GelReader, HypercardAnimator, NCSA Image, Import2HDF, Layout, & PalEdit here. TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 18. ftp.primate.wisc.edu (144.92.43.11) /pub/mac Contains some programs by Paul DuBois, and a few other utilities: BlobMgr, FaceLift, Grep, TransSkel, ZoomIdle, MakeWrite, SicnEdit, gnome, and psuedo-fpu. TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 19. ftp.uu.net (192.48.96.9) /languages/abc You can find a mac version of the ABC programming language here, and also a mac version of STDWIN as /amiga-sources/stdwin/mac.tar.Z. UUNet also archives huge amounts of other material, like USENET news, GNU stuff, bsd sources, internet specs, popular unix packages, and bug fixes. ALL FILES: /index/master.Z, /index/master-time.Z RECENT FILES: /index/changes.week.Z, /index/changes.day.1.Z IN QUEUE: /index/incoming.Z HELP: /help, /index/README HOW TO UPLOAD: /tmp TRANSFER MODE: Use BINARY. 20. ics.uci.edu (128.195.1.1) /mac/think-c Home of the Think C mailing list. You'll find a bunch of Think Class Library stuff here, along with general Think C code, interfaces, and updaters. Read all the README files in /mac/think-c for more info (and how to get on the mailing list). TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 21. munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) /mac Home of Webster Multiport Gateway tools, and other mac networking goodies, like Columbia Appletalk Package, Timelord, & Messages. TRANSFER MODE: Use BINARY. 22. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.25.1) /entrez The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) developed and supports a public domain program named Entrez (pronounced "ON-tray") for browsing a comprehensive set of DNA and protein sequence databases and a subset of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE bibliographic database. NetEntrez {freely available program available here} can be used to access the Entrez network service provided by the NCBI. NetEntrez has no access charges and does not use a CD-ROM drive. For users without Internet connectivity, ordering information for Entrez CD-ROM subscriptions is posted there, too. (gish@host.nlm.nih.gov (Warren Gish)) HELP: Contact info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 23. rascal.ics.utexas.edu (128.83.138.20) /mac The definitive anti-viral support site as well as the archive site for MacLayers, DialScript, and comp.sys.mac.announce. 24. rever.nmsu.edu (128.123.3.18) /pub/macfaq This archive contains almost all freely distributable software mentioned in the FAQ lists for comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system and comp.sys.mac.apps. (eharold@corona.sunspot.noao.edu (Elliotte Harold)) TRANSFER MODE: Use BINARY. 25. ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de (130.149.17.7) /pub/mac Also called quepasa.cs.tu-berlin. FTP-Users can get folders with 'get folder.tar' and get files/folers compressed 'get file.Z/get folder.tar.Z' TRANSFER MODE: Use BINARY. Mail-Server: mail-server@cs.tu-berlin.de 26. ftp.lth.se (130.235.20.3) /mac European sumex shadow. Due to people using the site as a gif trading post the ftp upload was eliminted. HOW TO UPLOAD: email files to Peter.Moller@dna.lth.se TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 27. ftp.sunet.se (130.238.127.3) /pub/mac In addition to mirroring both Info-mac {/pub/mac/info-mac} and Umich {/pub/mac/mirror-umich} this Sweden archive has large amounts of DOS, Windows and UNIX files. INFO: 'arkiv-underh' in the root directory {in Swedish, I think} TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII for .hqx files, BINARY for everything else. 28. grind.isca.uiowa.edu (128.255.200.3) /mac The Iowa Student Computing Association filesystem. In addition to FTP it also has telnet downloading interface (Zmodem, NetZmodem, Kermit, Xmodem, FTP) with search, new_files, and batch downloading, login as 'iscabbs'. ISCA also has one of the largest Internet BBS's at bbs.isca.uiowa.edu, they support over 200 users online at once. Coming soon: PANDA, the information arcade message system. TRANSFER MODE: Use BINARY. (MacBinary format) 29. src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.10) /computing/systems/mac/info-mac A London based Info-mac & umich {packages/mac/umich} shadow. Limit: 300 simultaneous users. To save space some files have been gzipped but these can ungzipped on the fly by typing in the file name minus the .gz suffex. HELP: mail ukuug-soft@doc.ic.ac.uk to contact the maintainers. TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII for .hqx files, BINARY for everything else. 30. wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) /systems/mac This is the de-facto king of shadow archives; it mirrors three mac sites: sumex {/systems/mac/info-mac}, mac.archive.umich.edu {/systems/mac/umich.edu}, and the now defunct Simtel site {/systems/mac/machintosh}. Also shadows several non-Mac archives. Limit: 225/250 simultaneous users. Note: login to this site can become difficult when sumex gets new files. TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII for .hqx files, BINARY for everything else. 31. ftp.bio.indiana.edu (129.79.224.50) / All sorts of scientific applications, in /biology/mac, /chemistry/mac, /science/mac, and /molbio/mac. HELP: /archive.doc HOW TO UPLOAD: /incoming TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII. 32. ftp.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.59) /mac/MUG A local user group was kind enough to store copies of it's massive disk collection here. Unfortunately the collection is old {most recent date Sep 11, 1992} and the main index file was last updated Nov 15, 1989. As a result the contents of entire disks are unknown until after downloading them, which in turn can lead to wasted internet bandwidth. ALL FILES: /mac/MUG/0Biglist.MUG HELP: /mac/MUG/0README.MUG TRANSFER MODE: Use ASCII.
UMICH - The Macintosh Archive of the University of Michigan For more information, see below.
Michigan (gopher.archive.merit.edu): ftp gopher
Missouri (wuarchive.wustl.edu): ftp gopher
Oregon (archive.orst.edu): ftp gopher
Iowa (grind.isca.uiowa.edu): ftp gopher
Utah (ftp.pht.com) ftp gopher
England (src.doc.ic.ac.uk): ftp gopher
France (anl.anl.fr): ftp gopher
France (ftp.loria.fr): ftp gopher
Germany (ftp.uni-paderborn.de): ftp gopher
Germany (info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de): ftp gopher
Italy (umich-mirror.fis.utovrm.it): ftp gopher Note
Sweden (ftp.sunet.se): ftp gopher
Sweden (ftp.lth.se): ftp gopher
Switzerland (nic.switch.ch): ftp gopher
Japan (ftp.inter.spin.ad.jp): ftp gopher
Japan (ftp.riken.go.jp): ftp gopher
Taiwan (nctuccca.edu.tw): ftp gopher
Taiwan (ftp.ccu.edu.tw): ftp gopher
Melbourne (archie.au): ftp gopher
Mulgrave (archive.bhp.com.au): ftp gopher
Haifa, Israel (ftp.technion.ac.il) ftp gopher
This will randomly pick a mirror site. Not all that great since every hyperlink may pick a different server ...
Virtual (mirror.archive.umich.edu): ftp gopher
UK (Martijn Koster) (web.nexor.co.uk): http
USA (Baron Chandler) (www.msc.wku.edu): http
At the Italian site (umich-mirror.fis.utovrm.it), some of
the filenames are changed to fit VMS constraints.
You can contact the UMich archives directly through the following:
FTP: mac.archive.umich.edu:/mac Gopher: gopher.archive.merit.edu "Software Archives" Email: Upload List: mac-recent-request@mac.archive.umich.edu Comments: comments@mac.archive.umich.edu Questions: questions@mac.archive.umich.edu (Questions about the archive, please!) Submissions: macgifts@mac.archive.umich.edu (Files bigger than 1.2MB will expire after some time.)
Recommended files for reading:
INTRO /mac/00introduction : An introducion to the UMICH archive. INDEX /mac/00help/index.txt.gz : Path/file + description (date,size,review). UPLOAD /mac/00help/submissions.txt : Hints on preparing files for submission. DOC /mac/misc/documentation/* : FAQs, pointer files, program descriptions. UMICH upload list: You can get a list of recent files uploaded to the archive by email! It is sent out every two weeks complete with file descriptions. Just ask for it at "mac-recent-request@mac.archive.umich.edu"! Please send corrections of this information to guckes@inf.fu-berlin.de. Thanks!