7 replies to this topic

[w_sp8er]

It would be nice to have an archive of the old forum's posts. If you don't want to put them here, are you able to zip them & email or pm them to me...?

[CyberSlug]

I've successfully downloaded the old forums to my hard drive--over a 28.8 speed connection, for what it's worth
mirror complete in 2 hours 43 minutes 26 seconds : 3376 links scanned, 2546 files written (66855239 bytes overall)
I should check with Jon before posting it to the web--I could upload it to my old university account until the end of December. So all is not lost

However, it's not a perfect mirror: You cannot search or easily display old pages, although I think I have all the old posts. One way to access the old forums is to put the old forum's IP address in your computer's hosts file:
66.36.97.80 www.hiddensoft.com

[caspermurphy]

I am slowly learning this

I have updated my Hosts file, how do I access the old forum after doing that?

John

[CyberSlug]

Well, on Windows 2000/XP you just need go to www.hiddensoft.com/forum after you make the hosts' file change.
Windows Me/9x may require you to disconnect or even reboot before the change takes effect

Hope that helps

[Jon]

I've just had the cancellation confirmation from the old site, so if it's not dead yet it will be soon...

[foscmgt]

Hi CyberSlug
I come back of holidays. (one week) and... surprise ! 'm waiting for an answer but
old forum not found !
I tried this

One way to access the old forums is to put the old forum's IP address in your computer's hosts file:
66.36.97.80 www.hiddensoft.com

and

Windows Me/9x may require you to disconnect or even reboot before the change takes effect

but not work.I'm afraid it's too late.
Where I can find this files ?
The download time, speed and size is not a problem
Thanks a lot.

Manel

[CyberSlug]

Okay, I've uploaded the old forum posts to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AutoIt/files/

- The ZIP download is 2.14 MB, and it occupies about 15 MB when uncompressed.

- I think all the posts are there; I removed some unnecessary files to shrink the download size. (I used the program WinHTTrack website copier, by the way, to download the site.)

- However, only the first page of topics is available for each sub-forum because it was dynamically generated by the old forum server. The forum "search" feature is not available for the same reason.

- It would be pretty easy to create a "table of contents" from the topic___.html files. The sixth line of each of those files contains the TITLE of the post topic. I'll leave this as an exercise to HTML gurus with spare CPU cycles

[foscmgt]

Thanks Cyberslug for this file.