On 9/4/2020 7:37 AM, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via tml list) wrote:
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> Kaladorn wrote:
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>     3. If someone who has it could do a review of its contents (there's one for
>     Jeff's Frontier Traveller magazine!), that would be helpful. I don't even
>     have any sort of idea of formats, organization, or content involved (other
>     than in the most 10,000 foot view sort). It'd be nice to have a better idea
>     what was on the CD. It might be as simple as a file listing if the files
>     were by topic or by discussion thread or whatever. Or maybe there's more to
>     characterizing the contents...
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> The snag with this is that it is, as Brett says, a BIG job.  There's a
> lot on there.  And some of the individual things are quite large.  Most very small.
> Also, it's a frustrating job as oftimes I try to open a document or an
> image file or some such and my PC doesn't recognize the file format. 
> (Of course, there may be IT archaeologists who could manage this
> better than I.)  There are also 'softwarey' bits that I can't even attempt to do much with.

	Just to give you an idea of the size. I'm making a backup copy of my CD, and the windows copy statistics says 15,454 items and 462 MB.

	And yes, the TML and xboat list archives can be largely skipped but there are still a lot of things there.
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         Thomas Jones-Low

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Hmmm, mine is 16,546 items and 447 MB.

Most of the files are dated 16 August 1998, which must be when the CD was created, but two index files are dated 2 December 2008.

Brett.