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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 4 of DJGPP port of fileutils 4.1
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 03:15:58 GMT
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JT Williams wrote:
> 
> -: Is there any particular reason for not identifying the zip as
> -: being revised, such as "fil41-4.zip"?  There is no clue to this in
> -: the mini-faq postings.
> 
> IMHO the zip file name should not be changed.
> 
> OTOH, you can find the _release_ (not revision) number
> in the manifest/*.ver file:
> 
> % djpm --version
> fil40b GNU Fileutils 4.0 for DJGPP 2.x, release 4 (binaries)
> 
> I really appreciate that Richard does this.

We all do, and my comment was not a criticism.  Just pointing out
that it is hard to detect such changes without noticing the
ANNOUNCE.

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