Anthony's WWW Images (Frames Format)

Mirrors of This Library

AIcons WWW Images Central Server
-- Anthony Thyssen <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au>
Troubador Systems Mirror of WWW Images
-- Stephen Clayton <stecla@troubador.com>
US S.Carolina Mirror of WWW Images
-- Liankui Sun <sun@alice.ece.scarolina.edu>
French Mirror of WWW Images
-- Girard Gachelin <gg@lirmm.fr>
Italian Mirror (Video on Line)
-- Mario Cocco <cocco@vol.it>
VisiCom Network Services
-- Unknown


Readme and Downloads

The image example documents show all the images available in this collection to anyone in the world. Any other images in this directory not displayed by these links are logos and symbols of use only on this server itself.

All the images given pre-converted to the GIF format from Anthony's Icon Library where they are stored as X bitmaps and X pixmaps. Please feel free to take a visit and download any and all icons you find there.

Netscape uses can download a displayed image by pressing the rightmost mouse button over the image so that a menu appears. A ``Save Image'' option is then available in this menu. For other client users, some of the images are linked so just selecting the image will (depending on your client) download the image to a local viewer.

To make downloading these icons easier, I have provided the following archives of the available WWW icons shown ...

[grab] Gzip'ed Tar Archive (.tar.gz) for UNIX users. (~200 Kbytes)
[grab] Directory Indexes to download individual images.

NOTE: A link ``Zip Archive for PC users'' was discontinued due to two specific problems.

  1. In particular zip archives of icons are about 10 times bigger than a gzip'ed tar archive of the same files. For reasons have a look at GZip'ed Tar Archives vs Zip Archives

  2. The filenames of the images in each of these archives are not limited to 8 charcaters, as such PC users may find some icons overwriting others as they de-archive. This is not my problem but the fault of using a 1970's computer operating system which is what msdos is! (Fact!)

I do not at this time plan to make the ZIP archive available again, but PC users can still de-archive the ``Gziped Tar'' by getting the source to both the GZip compression program and a Tar Archive Program from...
  • The program source for ``Gzip'' (a compression program, not an archiver) and a unix tar archiver ``Gtar'' is available in the gnu source area on your nearest major FTP site (Such as Washinton Uni FTP Archive

  • PC users can find both GZip and a Tar archive extractor DeTar or even a full tar archiver Tar binaries from the SimTel PC archive mirrors on all the major ftp sites around the world (look under msdos, or simtel sub-directories).

  • OS/2 Users can also get GTar and GZip from the hobbes FTP archive.

  • I have also written a small shell script called "images_mirror" which uses the lynx WWW client to download the above tar file and automatically unpack it. This script will allow you to set up a `cron job' to automatically download and un-tar these images on a regular basis for use on your server.


    Dated: 30 May 1995
    Updated: 29 January 1996
    Anthony Thyssen, <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au>