[AIcons Symbol] Anthony's WWW Images (External Links)

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WARNING -- Access Limited -- WARNING

Due to the overwhelming demand for these Images, our server is no longer able to provide ``Example Image pages'' (the boss forbids it!) to the world at large. Example Image Page are however available in the various mirrors. You can also download the image archive using the links below.

Griffith University Users (external users not allowed) can view these images on the Restricted CIT Student Server's Images Area

For more information you may like to subscribe to the AIcons mailing list <aicons@cit.gu.edu.au> or for announcements only <aicons_announce@cit.gu.edu.au>. To subscribe send a ``subscribe {list}'' line in the body of an email message to <majordomo@cit.gu.edu.au>

Sorry Folks -- Anthony Thyssen -- 29 January 1996


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) about 330 Kbytes
[grab] Official FTP site for AIcons

For Mirror Coordinators I have 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 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. The script is VERY simple and you should have no problem modifying it if necessary.

PC Users please note: The link ``Zip Archive for PC users'' was discontinued because...

  1. Most of my icon collection, AIcons, are first and foremost, a X Windows Icon Collection, which is UNIX based where TAR archives are prevalent (ZIP is PC Based not UNIX). This WWW Collection is a sub-set of that larger collection.

  2. Zip Archives of GIF files are, on average, 10 times LARGER than the same GZiped Tar file. For the reason for this look at GZip'ed Tar Archives vs Zip Archives.

  3. Filenames used in my collection are longer than the DOS convention file system of 8 characters plus a 3 character suffix. As such PC users will, in any case, have problems with files overwriting each other. Windows 95 will NOT help as it still uses DOS underneath!

While I do not at this time plan to make the ZIP archive available again, 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 Washington 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 use, GTar and GZip from the hobbes FTP archive.


  • Dated: 30 May 1995
    Updated: 10 May 1996
    Anthony Thyssen, <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au>