Anthony's WWW Images (External Links)

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WARNING -- Access Limited -- WARNING

Due to the overwelming demand for these Images, our server is no longer able to provide ``Example Image pages''. You can however still download the image archieve, from this site until it is moved to a FTP server in a few weeks time.

Sorry Folks -- Anthony Thyssen -- 29 January 1996


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

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)

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>