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Old 05-28-2007, 08:45 AM   #5
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Getting Gutenberg books by FTP

Sadly, China doesn't like gutenberg.org, so I can't bring it up. I had the foresight to download a Gutenberg CD about four years ago before I came here, so I will never run out of books (maniacal grin).

But for those of you in China, there are a couple of FTP sites that work: Swedish University Network SUNET and Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center. From here you can find more FTP sites. I stopped looking when I found the two above. Oddly, the ones listed for China do not work for me.

The following info is from here.
Using an FTP client:
ftp ibiblio.org (or your favorite Gutenberg FTP site)
login: anonymous
password: yourname@your.machine
[this is your email address where you are]
cd pub
cd docs
cd books
cd gutenberg
cd etext02
[or 04, 03, 02, 01, 00, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91 or 90. 70's and 80's are in /etext90]
ls or dir for a listing of files
get filename (be sure to set bin, if you get the .zip files)
get more files
quit
get GUTINDEX.??
[?? = 04, 03, 02, 01, 00, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91 or 90 New files in 02, of course, all files in GUTINDEX.ALL]


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