On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 7:33 AM Steven D'Aprano
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: guido@cwi.nl --- a/doc/mod.tex +++ b/doc/mod.tex @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ \itembreak } - itle{\bf +\title{\bf Python Library Reference \\ (DRAFT) }