Where did the C (and C++) SNIPPETS library go?

Question

Once, there was this awesome SNIPPETS library of C (and C++) code. I used it from 1995 on, but its origin is much older and it was updated until at least 2007. From time to time, I found that I needed a piece of code not from a library, but something I could cut and paste into my own projects.

To my horror, it's now gone. There are traces of it, dead links on SO for instance.

Can anybody find me a mirror, or an archive of it? I had an early version on my harddrive for years, but not any more.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, Bob Stout (the guy who put it together and was ultimately its sole maintainer) died in February; when the registration on the site's domain expired, it appears that nobody renewed it. As far as I know, the site worked up until then, so it may still be there in the servers, just with no registration to make the name visible. If you could find a way to get ahold of him, Jon Guthrie would probably be the person who could get it up and running again (IIRC, he was largely responsible for putting it up on the web in the first place).

I believe all the "released" versions of Snippets are available from IFDC FileGate in the PDNCEE area. If there's enough interest, I could probably sort out the code that's still reasonably interesting from the basically-obsolete (purely MS-DOS), and put it up on Github or SourceForge or some such.

Other mirrors of the (1997) version of Snippets:

• http://www8.cs.umu.se/~isak/snippets/
• http://www.brokersys.com/snippets/