Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:02:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: SimTel vs. simtel.net (was: DJP info (Why are they so fat?))
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On 11 Jun 1996, Alexander Lehmann wrote:

> OK, I now found the file, it seems that there is cause for major
> confusion with SimTel and simtel.net. The ftp.coast.net alias contains
> vendors/djgpp but doesn't seem to get updated, ftp.simtel.net contains
> gnu/djgpp which is apparently up to date. The only bad thing is that
> most sites mirroring SimTel mirror ftp.coast.net, so unless this gets
> fixed somehow, updates for djgpp will not get propagated.

There is indeed confusion on what SimTel is (blame those silly name 
copyright wars for this), but the number of mirrors of ftp.simtel.net is 
close to that of ftp.coast.net, and it gets larger every day.  So there 
should be no problems with propagating DJGPP updates.

The next release of the FAQ list (soon!) will include pointers to both 
ftp.simtel.net and ftp.coast.net, including all their mirror sites.