From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: What's up with Simtel?
Date:	Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:20:27 +0000
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Hello.

Doug Kaufman wrote:
> 
> Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net> writes:
> 
> >While the ftp site for simtel seems to be unaffected, www.simtel.net
> >seems to have no way to navigate to the djgpp (or gnuish) file section.
[snip]
> I don't know the latest about the DJGPP aspect of Simtel, but Simtel has
> not been able to pay for itself and is no longer being supported as it
> was. The following is an excerpt from a private email to me from Keith
> Petersen, the main archivist at Simtel for many years (posted with his
> permission).

Looking at UK FTP mirrors of Simtel, it seems that it is not being
mirrored anymore. Perhaps the period between mirrors has increased.
Anyhow, stuff used to appear on sunsite.org.uk's mirror after a few days,
but that's way behind. ftp.mirror.ac.uk seems better, but even that
doesn't have the very latest DJGPP packages - e.g. the XDelta packages I
uploaded last weekend.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ 

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