SL Snapshot

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For those of you who would like a local copy of Sensei's Library, here it is:

Snapshot of Sensei's Library, 2006-07-12 (with over 13500 pages and over 24000 diagrams)
[ext] download as .tar.gz (48MB)
or [ext] download as .tar.bz2 (42MB)
(if unsure take the .tar.gz file)

The snapshot includes all pages, diagrams, and SGF files.

Just like everything else on SL, this snapshot is published under the terms of the OpenContent license. See SL copyright.

Please see PocketSL or SLoT for snapshots viewable on most hand-held computers.

If you think that the snapshot is out of date, drop Arno a short message.


See [ext] http://senseis.xmp.net/files/snapshots/ for older snapshots.

Note: snapshots from 2002 or earlier may have filename link mismatches on case-sensitive systems.


Unpacking the snapshot

  • On Windows, you can download the .tar.gz snapshot and unpack it with [ext] Winzip or [ext] Win-RAR, or download the .tar.bz2 snapshot and unpack with Win-RAR.
  • On Unix-like operating systems, you can download the .tar.gz snapshot and unpack with "tar -xzvf", or download the .tar.bz2 snapshot and unpack with "tar -xjvf".
  • If your tar is not [ext] GNU tar or [ext] star, you can unpack .tar.gz snapshot like this: "gzip -cd file.tar.gz | tar xf -". .tar.bz2 can be unpacked like this: "bzip2 -cd file.tar.bz2 | tar xf -"
  • On MacOS X you can use aforementioned Unix-commands or [ext] StuffIt (available for Windows, too).
  • Here are other general-purpose (un)packers with ability to unpack tar.bz2-files (Most of these are for Windows only): [ext] 7-Zip, [ext] IZArc, [ext] PKZIP, [ext] Power Archiver, [ext] Ultimate Zip, [ext] Wintarball, [ext] ZipZag

FAQ

Q: Could snapshots be provided more often?

A: Currently, making a snapshot of SL is not done by a script, but manually. There is a plethora of reasons why. Usually, I provide a new snapshot every 2-3 months.

The wiki-dump.sql file used by the hand-held snapshots is updated once per month (automatically).

Q: I'd like to play with the wiki data myself. Do you provide the wiki data in source text format?

A: Yes. Use the [ext] wiki-dump.sql file. It is a snapshot of part of the wiki database. It contains all information necessary to play around. The file is updated monthly.

Q: Can you also post the approximate size of the directory one would get after unpacking the gzipped tarball? Thanks.

A: About 260MB when unpacked. You can put the files onto a CD-image (*.iso, burn to imagerecorder) and mount the iso-file with daemon-tools. As the tarball contains many small files, you can save disk space. (One 100-bytes-file on Hd = one cluster = up to 32KBy, on CD one cluster = 2 KBy (?4KBY?); o.k.: you can also burn a real CD, but file access is slower.)

Q: Could you please provide the snapshot as a zip file that can be opened by Windows XP without using Winzip?

A: Winzip can open .tar.gz files, you just need to unpack twice, first the tar.gz (gz means gzip) must be un-gzipped to get the .tar then the .tar (tar means tape archive) must be un-archived.

 (Hmm! Isn't the question 'without using Winzip'?
 What about using one of the free available (un-)packers mentioned above? RueLue)

Q: Why can't I just 'update' my old snapshot but have to download the whole ~50 MB files again? I think SL can just provide the flies that have been updated since last snapshot for those who already have one.

Q: The archives contain grafics, where a.gif and A.gif, unpacked (under win) to the same folder, give a warning 'overwrite?'. Unix and Mac do not have that problem? Work-around? (Q.by RueLue)

Q: For searching in the snapshot it would be good to have a chm-file. Some months ago I found (on Hikarunix) a snapshot compiled to a chm-file (win: compiled help file, see [ext] (on wikipedia) ). It also needs much less space on the harddisk. Is it possible to have it here? (Q. by RueLue)


This is a copy of the living page "SL Snapshot" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2007 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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