On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 7:33 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 05:49:49PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > > If someone knows how to get the original Usenet messages from what Google > > published, let me know. > > I don't have those, but I do have a copy of Python 0.9.1 with unmangled > scripts. > > $ ls -lh Python-0.9.1.tar.gz > -rwxr-xr-x 1 steve steve 379K Nov 5 2009 Python-0.9.1.tar.gz > > I don't remember where I got it from, but it compiled on CentOS release > 5.11, I'm not sure if it will compile on anything newer. > > Skip, if you would like me to email it to you privately, let me know. > (Likewise for anyone else.)
The original ones are here: http://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/misc/archive/alt.sources/volume91/Feb/ Look at http://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/misc/archive/alt.sources/index.gz for the associating subjects with file names. As far as I can tell, they extract flawlessly using unshar. When I see diffs like this (your git vs. the unshar result) I tend to trust unshar more: --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ I am the author of Python: 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands - E-mail: gu...@cwi.nl + E-mail: gu...@cwi.nl --- a/doc/mod.tex +++ b/doc/mod.tex @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ \itembreak } - itle{\bf +\title{\bf Python Library Reference \\ (DRAFT) } _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/M22TFWZRACVXGLNHDHLWJ5FHUZBAYDEL/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
