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Date:	Mon, 04 Mar 2002 21:57:00 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Dircategories and (tex|txi|texi|texinfo]) files
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:
[snip]
> > I'll add this to my list of things to do for zippo. Right now this isn't
> > at the top, since I'm working on getting automatic HTTP/FTP downloads
> > with wget, which is more important right now IMHO.
> 
> I'd rather think that to get the installation procedure DTRT is more
> important than to have Web-based upgrades: there are alternative to
> the latter, but a messed-up DIR file is much harder to fix, since it
> requires the knowledge of an Info format, something most users lack.

Well, it looks like I hadn't got very far with web downloading. (I dunno - I
go away for a couple of weeks and my memory goes. 8) ). Anyway, I'm going to
do a zippo release this weekend, since there are a lot of bugfixes in CVS.
I'll make zippo print out the suggested install-info commands, rather than
running them.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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