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Macintosh ftp sites

From: Bruce Grubb <bgrubb@zianet.com>
Subject: Mac-Site-list, Version 4.7.6
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 20:40:25 -0700

Subject: Mac-Site-list, Version 4.7.6
From: BruceG6069@aol.com (Bruce Grubb)

Here's Version 4.7.6 (Jan 1, 2003)

The Mac-Site-list lists over 100 mac anonymous ftp sites (some with 
notes),
over 120 Mac web pages, and contains some instructions on how to use 
anonymous
ftp and find files as well a format chart showing which programs 
decompress
and decode which files.  Also there is a section on how to use certain 
files.

To ensure that the columns in the Format Chart section line up correctly 
the
document's text must be in a monospaced font such as Courier 10pt, 
Monaco 9pt
or a PC equivalent.

Credits:
To Mike Gleason for the original Mac-FTP-list and giving me permission to
continue it.

To Tim Jones, reichh45@potsdam.edu, and Robert C. Best III (author of the
excellent HTML editors, World Wide Web Weaver and HTML Web Weaver Lite) 
for the work that made the HTML version of the Mac Site list possible. 

To Stairways Software (http://www.interarchy.com/) for their Interarchy
program without which it would be next to impossible to maintain this.

World Wide Web providers take note: The html version of the 
mac-site-list 
is composed of five crosslinked files which CANNOT be renamed:
Mac-site.css, mac-site-list.html, ftp-list.html, www-section.html, 
and site-notes.html.
Its home site is <http://members.aol.com/BruceG6069/Welcome.html>

Changes: web sites reorganized;

Added sites/URLs: http://www.macosxhints.com/; http://xicons.com/;
http://www.resexcellence.com/; http://macslash.com/;

Defunct sites/URLs: None;

Note:  Mike Gleason no longer supports the Mac-FTP-list list and has 
given me his kind permission to continue it.

Revisions posted monthly to the USENET newsgroups comp.sys.mac.comm,
comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.apps, and comp.sys.mac.games.misc.

Archives:

.hqx files
     Info-Mac's mirrors
.sit file
     http://members.aol.com/BruceG6069/mac-site-list.sit
.html
     http://members.aol.com/BruceG6069/mac-site-list.html
     http://members.aol.com/BruceG6069/ftp-list.html
     http://members.aol.com/BruceG6069/www-section.html
     http://members.aol.com/BruceG6069/site-notes.html
     Compressed version is an .sit file which contains a text
     version of the Mac-Site-list.
.txt file
     Format chart section; format-chart-152.txt

Copyright 2001 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

For folks new to the Mac-Site-list
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The Mac-Site-list is composed of four parts: the introduction (this 
section) Mac FTP sites, Mac related http sites, and finally notes on 
certain sites.

The FTP section is set up in three columns. The first column is the site
name and the third column is the pdirectory pathway; usually you can 
either  type in the URL ftp://sitename/pathway/ on a Web browser or run 
ftp from a unix shell account 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 second  column of stuff, the IP addresses.  If you try either 
method with the IP number and it doesn't bite, it isn't gonna work.  
With the exceptions of 'dymatic addressing' and limited access sites the 
HTML version has both links for each site.

Most mac files on the Internet have been encoded BinHex 4.0 (ends in the 
suffix ".hqx") though on occation you will encounter the MacBinary 
(.bin) format.  To decode these files, you can just download them to 
your mac and use Stuffit Expander to decode and expand them, regardless 
of what format it is in.  This is much better than in the old days when 
you had to download a file to your mac, use use one program to decode 
it, and THEN, figure which program you needed use to decompress it.

In days long past one had to have a unix shell account to use FTP.  Today
there are a whole host of options available - from commercial services 
such as CompuServe and AOL to local and national ISPs. In addition there 
are dozens of communication programs for the Macintosh that that make 
using Telnet and FTP much easier now than years ago.  A list of such 
programs can be found at The Mac Orchard web page 
<http://www.macorchard.com/> some of which are also in the 
subdirectories of /info-mac/comm/ on many info-mac mirrors.

On a unix shell account, ftp prompts you for a username and password; you
send "anonymous" as the username, and your email address as the 
password. 
Most browsers and MacOS FTP clients will do this automatically if they 
have been set up properly.  For the few that don't or can't try doing 
your URLs in this variation of the Common Internet Scheme Syntax 
<http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt> - 
ftp://anonymous:email_address@URL. I have found that browsers generally 
make for poor FTP clients which is why I recommend Interarchy as the Mac 
FTP client of choice; not only is it the most powerful Mac FTP client I 
have used but is has very powerful networking tools built into it.

Keep in mind that some sites may disenable the anonymous login for a 
while: 
during certain hours of the day, for maintainance reasons, or because of 
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.


Power User Notes:
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If you need to know the IP address of an any site, a common unix program
called "nslookup" can help.  With some versions, "nslookup ftp.apple.com"
would spit out "130.43.2.3."  Doing the reverse is dependent on how your 
site is set up.  Some sites require reversing the address and using the 
in-addr.arpa domain with the lookup type set to "ANY", while others can 
use the address as written.  The program Interarchy includes DNS 
lookup as one of its features.

Here's a handy chart to keep track which programs unmangle which formats:

                                                 unix  gzip  .uu/ .b64/
Macintosh              .sit  .hqx .bin .zip .tar  .Z  .gz/.z .uue .mime*
Stuffit Expander**       D     D    D    D    D    D     D     D    D
DropStuff**              C     C
DropTar**                                     C    C     C     C
DropZip**                           I    C                     C
StuffIt Deluxe***        X     X    X    X    X    X     X     X    D
MacCompress                                        X
MacGzip                                            D     X
MPack 1.5.1                    D                               D    X
SunTar 2.2.3                   X    X         X                X    D
ZipIt                          D    D    X

Other                                            unix  gzip  .uu/ .b64/
computers              .sit  .hqx .bin .zip .tar  .Z  .gz/.z .uue .mime*
Stuffit Expander**       D     D    D    D               D     D
StuffIt Standard**       X               X    X          X     X    X
StuffIt Deluxe (Win)***  X     X    D    X    X    D     X     X    X
Expander (Linux)        D/N    D    D    D         D     D     D    D
StuffIt (Linux)***      C/N    C    C    C         C     C     C
binhex-pc-13                   X
MPack                          D                               D    X
PKZIP                                  X
xferp110 (win)                 X                               X    X

D = Decode/decompress only
C = Create/compress only
I = MacBinary format is supported internally only
X = Create and decode
N = cannot handle new sitx format

.sit refers to all versions of the Stuffit format.  A '/' denotes the
inability to handle certain formats as outlined in the legend above.

.hqx = BinHex4; .bin = BinHex5, MacBinary I, II, and III
Note: Almost every Mac communications program can decode .bin files.

*   .b64/.mime (Base 64) refers to the encoding format used by the 
    Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension.  For more information consult
    the MIME FAQ. 
<http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mime-faq/top.htm
l>.
**  Stuffit Expander (free) along with DropStuff, DropTar, and DropZip
    (shareware) are combined into StuffIt Standard.
    Current public versions are 7.0.0 (Mac) and 8.0/7.5 (Win)
*** Current versions as of this writing are 7.0 (Mac), 7.5 (Win)
    and 5.2 (Linux and Solaris)
    Aladdin has a more detailed format chart at their site
    <http://www.aladdinsys.com/support/techsupport/fileformats.html>

Other formats
.arc
     old (c1990) MS-DOS compresion format, replaced by .zip.
     Decompressed by StuffIt Expander/Deluxe, and 
     MacArc (can also compress).
.arj
     PC format common to European sites. Decompressed by unArjMac,
     DeArj, and StuffIt Expander/Deluxe 7.0.
.cpt
     Mac compression format created by Compact programs (last 
     updated April 1995).  Decompressed by Stuffit Expander/Deluxe, 
     Compact Pro, and macunpack.
.dd
     Disk Doubler (Mac) format. Decompressed by DDExpand, DiskDoubler
     and Stuffit Expander 7.0.
.exe
     DOS/Windows executable file (program); also used to create
     self-extracting archives. An .exe file used as a self-extracting
     archive can usually be decompressed with Stuffit Expander.
     Use of this format of an archive is strongly discouraged as it 
     can cause problems crossplatform.
.html (.htm)
     WWW document. Used by WWW browsers such as Netscape and Explorer.
.image/.img/.ima/ (related format - .smi, .dmg)
     These are all disk image extensions.  They represent Mac disk image
     (.image/.img), Microsoft Disk Image Utility (.img), Winimage
     (.ima), and MacOS X disk image (.dmg) formats.  Disk Copy can 
   handle all these formats. .smi is a self mounting disk image 
   format that has been made redudent with MacOS X.
     Note that .img is also used as an graphic file extension and
     needs GraphicConverter to view.
.lzh (related formats - .lha and .lzs)
     old PC/Amiga format that is still quite popular in Japan and
     with Aminet Amiga site <http://us.aminet.net/~aminet>, largely
     replaced by .arc and .zip elsewhere; decompressed via
     Stuffit Expander 7.0, LHA Expander 1.0.3, and 
     French KISS 2.2.0.  StuffIt Deluxe 7.0 and MacLHA 2.2.1 can 
     compress in the lha format.
.pkg
     AppleLink package format currently only used for MacOS X
   installers.  Handled automaticaly by Mac 10.1 and higher.
.rar
     A DOS compression format.  Handled by MacRAR 
<http://macrar.free.fr/>
     StuffIt Expander/Deluxe 7.0.
.sea
     A special version of a Mac compression format that decompresses
     itself when opened.  The most common .sea files are Stuffit,
     Compact Pro, and Disk Doubler.  Use of this format is strongly
     discouraged as it can cause problems crossplatform.
.shar
     Unix shell archive. Decoded by Unshar.
.taz
     another name for .tar.Z
.tgz
     another name for .tar.z and .tar.gz (do not confuse with .tar.Z)
     The term tarball (which refers to any tar file) has also been
     used to describe this.
.txt (.abs, .doc)
     ASCII text file. There is a slight differance between ASCII text 
     files of Mac, PCs, and UNIX systems which can cause problems when 
     trying to read them. Mac ASCII uses carrage returns, UNIX uses 
     line feeds, and PC uses both.
.z
     Suffix used by both Unix pack and early (c1993) Gzip files.
     Due to confusion between these compression methods and Unix 
     'compress' suffix (.Z) it was abandoned in favor of 
     the .gz suffix.  Unix pack itself has been effectively 
     replaced by both Unix compress and Gzip.
    
CAUTION: While Gzip is aimed at replacing the .Z format, they are 
_different_ unix compression formats, and the suffixes are NOT 
inchangable.  
Many sites now support on-the-fly translation of these formats; just 
type 
in the file name minus the .Z or .gz suffix.

WARNING: .hqx, .uu, .b64, and .txt files are the ONLY files that can be 
downloaded in ASCII mode; all others must be downloaded in BINARY 
{IMAGE} 
mode for the file to decompress properly.  This is especially true of 
".bin" and "unstuffed" files.  Otherwise you will get errors like 
"unreadable file" or "file is corrupt" when you try to decompress them.

If you need further information please check out the comp.compression FAQ
<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/>
or David Lemson's compression chart at
<http://www.nus.edu.sg/FTP/compression.html>.


Finding files and programs
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If you are looking for a specific mac file or program you will want to 
use one or more of the many databases or search engines available some 
of which are listed in the Web section.  Since I only keep track of 
sites I have no idea where individual files are located, which is why I 
have included a list of Web search engines.  Please note that such 
database information is not always up-to-date so files and sites listed 
may no longer exist.

Using files
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The best thing to do with a file you have down loaded and are unsure how 
to open it it to try to figure out what -broad- type of file it is: 
Word Processor, picture, sound, or movie.

Word Processor
     Tex-Edit Plus <http://hometown.aol.com/tombb/> will read
     most of these out there though some will require Adobe Acrobat
     Reader (.pdf), a commerical Word Processor such as
     MS Word or WordPerfect, or a convertion utility like 
     MacLinkPlus <http://www.dataviz.com/>
     
Sound files, Pictures, and Movies
     QuickTime <http://www.apple.com/quicktime/> is able to handle
     the majority of the formats available on the Internet but
     sometimes something else is needed for an uncommon format.

     Sound App (Freeware, http://www.spies.com/~franke/SoundApp/) 
     is able to play Amiga MOD files and several other old formats
     that Quicktime does not understand.

     GraphicConverter (Shareware, $30-$35,<http://www.lemkesoft.de/>) 
     is one of the most powerful shareware graphic programs for the
     Mac being able to open 100 different graphic formats (including
     Ani, dl, gif, and fli/flc) and save in 60 of them.
     In addition GraphicConverter has editing capablities
     rivaling those seen in higher priced programs as well as beign able
     to created animated gifs.
     More details on graphic formats in general can be found in the
     PC Webopaedia  
     <http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/g/graphics_file_format.html>.

     QuickTime needs some help to handle the newer avi formats. 
     DivX Doctor II <http://doctor.3ivx.com/> and the related 
     3ivx Delta codec <http://www.3ivx.com/download/macos.html> are of
     some assistant in this but even they do not let Quicktime handle
     all avi formats.

Other files
     Hopefully there is a document file that tells you what is needed
     otherwise it is pretty much a lost cause.


These sites have many mac files, and are still getting new ones:
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ftp.amug.org               204.62.193.26   /pub/amug/amug-files/       1
                           204.62.193.26   /pub/contrib/
                           204.62.193.26   /pub/mirrors/info-mac/
info-mac.org               18.23.0.24      unknown, see note           2

These sites are home to a few specific file(s) or file types:
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biom3.univ-lyon1.fr        134.214.94.219  /pub/mac/ (MacMul, GraphMu)
d31rz0.stanford.edu        171.64.124.71   /WaveMetrics/ (Igor)
ftp.aladdinsys.com         216.52.26.206   /pub/ (Aladdin)             3
ftp.claris.com             192.35.50.27    /pub/USA-Macintosh/ (Claris)
ftp.netbsd.org             204.152.184.75  /pub/NetBSD/ (BSD UNIX)
ftp.sonicsys.com           216.35.152.201  /pub/ (sonicsys)
ftp.sri.ucl.ac.be          130.104.1.5     /pub/ (network, French 
versions)
munnari.oz.au              128.250.1.21    /mac/ (CAP, Multigate stuff)
neptune.ethz.ch            129.132.178.196 /Oberon/MacII/, /XYZ/ 
(MacOberon)
quest.cc.purdue.edu        128.210.250.54  /pub/mac/ (RevRdist)


These sites are shadow/mirror archives (the same stuff) of something 
else:
(Key: IM = Info-mac, UM = umich;)
[Umich parent site has not been updated since Jan 2000)
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ftp.agt.net                198.161.156.11  /pub/info-mac/
ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp   133.1.119.4     /info-mac/
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de        130.149.17.12   /pub/mac/
ftp.funet.fi               193.166.3.2     /pub/mac/
ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de              /pub/info-mac/
                           137.226.116.98
ftp.inter.spin.ad.jp       165.76.0.66     /pub/Mac/
ftp.jussieu.fr             195.83.118.1    /pub/mac/info-mac/
ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp          192.26.91.193   /info-mac/
ftp.loria.fr               152.81.10.10    /pub/mac/
ftp.midata.fi              193.229.237.125 /pub/mac/ [collection]
ftp.nus.edu.sg             137.132.12.100  /pub/mac/ [IM]
ftp.riken.go.jp            134.160.4.15    /pub/mac/ [IM, UM]
ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de   130.75.2.2      /pub/mirror/info-mac/
ftp.sunet.se               130.242.206.41  /pub/mac/ [IM]              5
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de       129.69.1.84     /pub/systems/mac/ [collection]
ftp.unina.it               192.132.34.17   /pub/Mac/
ftp.univie.ac.at           131.130.1.72    /systems/mac/info-mac/
ftp.uu.net                 192.48.96.9     /systems/mac/info-mac/
ftp.vuw.ac.nz              130.195.2.249   /info-mac/
hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu   18.24.10.21     /info-mac/
mirror.apple.com           17.254.3.100    /mirrors/Info-Mac.Archive/
mirrors.aol.com            152.163.210.176 /pub/ [IM, UM]
sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch    195.176.255.9   /mirror/                    6
                           195.176.255.9   /software/platform/macos/   6
sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk       193.63.255.4    /packages/mac/ [collection]
uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu     128.174.5.32    /pub/ftp/ftp.info-mac.org/
wuarchive.wustl.edu        128.252.120.8   /systems/mac/               7

These sites have just a few mac files:
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ftp.acns.nwu.edu           129.105.212.34  /pub/
ftp.dartmouth.edu          129.170.16.79   /pub/mac/
ftp.gwu.edu                128.164.9.5     /pub/ada/gw-adaed/mac/
                                           (Ada compiler)
ftp.nevada.edu             131.216.1.11    /pub/mac/
ftp.sensei.com.au          203.91.227.35   /mac/ /aux/
hobbes.lbl.gov             128.3.12.33     /pub/mac/ (Radiance)
sunsite.unc.edu            152.2.254.81
                                    /pub/academic/medicine/mac-medical/

These sites have a lot of files, but do not get much new:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
ftp.ari.net                206.246.124.45  /pub/Mac/
ftp.bio.indiana.edu        129.79.225.200  / (large science archive)  8
ftp.cit.cornell.edu        132.236.218.20  /pub/mac/
ftp.iij.ad.jp              202.232.2.54    /pub/mac/umich/
ftp.std.com                192.74.137.7    /obi/ (text files)

World Wide Web section

Large Mac Web, link, and archive sites
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.applelinks.com/                                   [Applelinks]
http://www.appleinsider.com/                              [Apple Insider]
http://www.everythingmac.com/                      [Everything Macintosh]
http://www.insanely-great.com/                       [Insanely Great Mac]
http://www.macaddict.com/                                     [MacAddict]
http://www.macassistant.com/                              [MacAssistant]
http://www.maccentral.com/                            [MacCentral Online]
http://www.index-site.com/mac.html              [Macintosh Related Sites]
http://macsupport.miningco.com/                             [Mac support]
http://www.macresource.com/                                [Mac Resource]
http://mac.map.com/                            [Macintosh Watering Hole]
http://www.cucug.org/mac/                       [Macintosh Web Directory]
http://www.pure-mac.com/                                       [Pure Mac]
http://www.tucows.com/                                           [Tucows]
http://www.ultimatemac.com/  [8/00]                        [Ultimate Mac]
http://volftp.mondadori.com/indexe.htm                          [VOLFTP]
 
Apple computer Web sites
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http://www.apple.com/                    [Apple Computer's Main Web site]
 http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/
 http://www.apple.com/support/                       [Apple support, US]
 http://www.apple.com/creative                                [Creatuve]
 http://www.apple.com/quicktime/                            [Quicktime]
 http://speech.apple.com/                                    [PlainTalk]

Info-Mac and related Web sites
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http://www.info-mac.com/; http://www.info-mac.org/   [Info-Mac home page]
 http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html     [MIT HyperArchive]
 http://mirror.apple.com/                               [Info-Mac mirror]
 http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/                         [UK mirror sites]
 http://www.rarf.riken.go.jp/archives/mac/                        [Japan]
 http://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/mac/info-mac/
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/                    [Umich web site] 11
 http://mac-archive.emnet.co.uk/                     [NEXOR Mac catalog]
http://www.amug.org/index.html                  [Arizona Mac Users Group]
http://associate.com/macos.shtml       [Associated Services' Mac 
archive] 12
http://www.jumbo.com/                             [Jumbo: Mac, IBM, OS/2]
http://www.macshare.com/                                   [MacShare Com]
http://public.www.planetmirror.com/                       [Planet Mirror]
http://www.ausmac.net/           [UNSW Mac Archive collection, Australia]

Mac Web sites with few specific file(s) or file types
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----
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/                           [AccelerateYourMac]
http://www.avault.com/                                 [Adrenaline Vault]
http://www.aladdin.com/                            [Aladdin Systems inc.]
 http://www.stuffit.com/                             [StuffIt utilities]
http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/                            [Ambrosia software]
http://www.barebones.com/                   [Bare Bones Software, BBEdit]
http://www.webcom.com/~carn/carnation/HT.Carn.Home.html [Carnation 
Software]
http://www.corel.com/                                [Corel, WordPerfect]
http://www.emulation.net/                           [Emulators for MacOS]
http://www.gamesdomain.com/                             [PC game reviews]
http://www.icab.de/                                        [iCab broswer]
http://www.tempel.org/joliet                           [Joliet extention]
http://www.imgmagazine.com/                            [Inside Mac Games]
http://www.interarchy.com/                         [Interarchy home page]
http://www.macledge.com/                                  [MacGamer.com]
http://www.macorchard.com/                        [Mac Orchard, Internet]
http://www.macosxhints.com/                               [MacOS X Hints]
http://www.macscripter.net                                  [AppleScript]
http://macslash.com/                    [MacSlash, News for the Mac geek]
http://www.markspace.com/                          [Mark/Space Softworks]
http://www.wolfram.com/                                     [Mathematica]
 http://mathsource.wolfram.com/                    [Mathematica Library]
http://www.microsoft.com/                            [MicroSoft Homepage]
http://www.jna.com/                              [John Neil & Associates]
http://www.netopia.com/                               [Netopia, Timbuktu]
http://www.netscape.com/                                       [Netscape]
http://www.nisus.com/                                             [Nisus]
http://www.povray.org/                                          [PoV-Ray]
http://www.quality-games.com/                             [Quality Games]
http://www.resexcellence.com/                             [ResExcellence]
http://www.roxio.com/en/support/udfmac/index.html         [UDF Macintosh]
http://www.scriptweb.com/                               [MacOS ScriptWeb]
http://www.skytouch.com/                        [Skytouch Communications]
http://www.tidbits.com/                                         [TidBITS]
http://www.pliner.com/macminix/                           [Unix for Macs]
 http://softrak.stepwise.com/Softrak
 http://www.macosxapps.com/
 http://macosx.forked.net/
 http://www.linux.org/                      [Linux on assorted platforms]
  http://www.penguinppc.org/
http://www.wildpackets.com/                      [Wildpackets, EtherPeek]
http://we.got.net/~mapman/wb/             [Unofficial World Builder page]
http://www.geocities.com/worldbuildergames/         [World Builder Index]
http://xicons.com/                                          [5000+ icons]

Computer companies that deal with Macs:
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http://www.macconnection.com/                             [Macconnection]
http://www.macspeedzone.com/                               [Macspeedzone]
http://www.hp.com/                                      [Hewlett Packard]
http://www.smalldog.com/                                      [Small Dog]
http://www.sonnettech.com/                                  [Sonnet Tech]
http://www.symantec.com/                                       [Symantec]

Miscellaneous Mac or special intrest Web sites
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http://help.altavista.com/babelfish/babel_faq       [Altavista babelfish]
http://translate.google.com/translate_t               [Google translator]
http://blackbox.50megs.com                    [Low-End Mac Portable Game]
http://www.cnet.com/                                              [C|net]
http://www.creativemac.com/                                 [CreativeMac]
http://www.emailman.com/software/wordproc/mac.html      [word processors]
http://www.ExtensionOverload.com/                     [ExtensionOverload]
http://www.macfixit.com/                                       [Macfixit]
http://www.macintouch.com/                                   [Macintouch]
http://www.carrier.co.at/res/mac/                  [Macintosh in Austria]
http://www.macobserver.com/                                [Mac Observer]
http://macreviewzone.com/                                 [MacReviewZone]
http://www.macsurfer.com/                     [MacSurfer's Headline News]
http://os9forever.com/                       [When Classic is not enough]
http://www.versiontracker.com/                          [Version Tracker]
http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-software/                       [Mac software]
http://www.promo.net/pg/                              [Project Gutenberg]
http://www.voyagerco.com/                      [Voyager CD-ROMs]
http://www.W3C.org/                      [World Wide Web Consortium, W3C]
 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1057/tidy.html         [MacTidy]
 http://tidy.sourceforge.net/                [HTML Tidy Library project]
http://www.zdnet.com/                            [Ziff-Davis Interactive]

Search engines
 Recommended search engines for individual files: 
 C|Net shareware and downloadable file Search engines.
 
Alta Vista [http://www.altavista.com/]
C|Net's downloads search engine [http://www.download.com/]
C|Net's shareware search engine [http://www.shareware.com/]
Excite [http://www.excite.com/]
Google [http://www.google.com/] and Newsgroups 
[http://groups.google.com/]
Inktomi [http://www.inktomi.com/products/portal/search/index.html]
Lycos [http://www.lycos.com/]
WebCrawler [http://www.webcrawler.com/]
Yahoo [http://www.yahoo.com/]

Notes on some of the above sites:
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W.  WWW page at site.  WR: replace 'ftp' with 'www' for web page.


1   ftp.amug.org (204.62.193.2) /pub/
    The Arizona Macintosh Users Group (AMUG) ftp site is one of 
    the major Mac sites on the net.  The only problem the site 
    has is that it tends to be very hard for non-members to log 
    on and there are few mirror sites.
    WWW:           http://www.amug.org/

2.  info-mac.org  (18.23.0.24) [unknown]
    Info-Mac's new home. "Software is only available from one of the
    many mirrors listed below."  (Info-Mac mirror Web page)  
    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.
    Mirror sites:  /info-mac/ directory or [IM].
    All Files:     /info-mac/help/all-files.txt
    Recent Files:  /info-mac/help/recent-files.txt
    Mirror Sites:  /info-mac/help/mirror-list.txt
    Help:          Look in the /info-mac/help directory, read them all.
    How to Upload: email files to macgifts@info-mac.org
                   or macgifts@mac.archive.umich.edu.
                   Files >800 K - e-mail file description to
                   archivist@info-mac.org and send file in .hqx
                   format to ftp://macgifts:macgifts@info-mac.org/
    WWW:           http://www.pht.com/info-mac/

3.  ftp.aladdinsys.com  (204.147.235.106) /pub/
    Aladdin Systems' formal anonymous ftp site.  In addition to Aladdin's
    Mac software there are PC decoders for StuffIt files - SITEX10.EXE 
(win)
    and unsitins.exe (dos) (See format table for mare details). 
    Mirrors:       ftp://amug.org/pub/contrib/aladdin/
                   ftp://ftp.scruz.net/users/aladdin/public/
    WWW:           http://www.aladdinsys.com/          

4.  ftp.primate.wisc.edu  (144.92.43.19)  /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: ASCII.

5.  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.  
    Forusers without Internet connectivity, ordering information 
    for Entrez CD-ROM subscriptions is posted there, too.
    (gish@host.nlm.nih.gov (Warren Gish))
    BLAST {molecular biology searcher} can be found in the
    blast/network/experimental/macintosh directory.
    Help:          Contact info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
    WWW:           http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

6.  ftp.sunet.se  (130.238.253.5) /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}
    WWW:           http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/mac/info-mac/

7.  sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch  (195.176.255.9)  /mirror/
                                           /software/platform/macos/
    Swiss SunSITE is located in Zurich and is the biggest Europian
    shadow archie I know of; it mirrors info-mac, umich-mac, 
    AMUG, netscape, MachTen, oztex, peterlewis, and Apple's 
    support site. In addition it mirrors many non-Mac archives.
    WWW:           http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/
                   http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/search/ftp/
     Mirror list   http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/search/mirror/

8.  wuarchive.wustl.edu  (128.252.135.4)  /systems/mac/
    Alias: ftp.wustl.edu.  This is the de-facto king of US shadow
    archives; in addition to up-to-date archives of Info-Mac,
    mac.archive.umich.edu, and AMUG there is also an older Mac file
    archive (/systems/mac/info-mac/Old/) as well as the shadows of 
    several non-Mac archives.
    Limit: 225/250 simultaneous users.
    Note: login to this site can become difficult when macgifts gets new
    files.
    Transfer Mode: ASCII for .hqx files, BINARY for everything else.
    WWW:           http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/mac/info-mac/

9.  ftp.bio.indiana.edu  (129.79.225.25)  /{see below}
    All sorts of scientific applications, in /biology/mac/,
    /chemistry/mac/, /science/mac, and /molbio/mac/. 
    Help:          /archive.doc
    How to Upload: /incoming
    Gopher:        gopher://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/11
    WWW:           http://ftp.bio.indiana.edu/
    
10. Umich web site <http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/>
    This is the web site of the Umich archive.  The ftp site disappeared
    around August 1998 and there was a formal announcement of the site 
    no longer being updated nor maintained at the home page.
    WWW:           http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sdamask/umich-mirrors/
    
11. Associate Systems - http://associate.com/bbs_mug.html
    AMUG mirror that also has a huge collection of Christian files and 
    carries the CyberChurch Christian network online.
 

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