Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 07:26:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank Donahoe <fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu>
Reply-To: Frank Donahoe <fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu: Patch Level in /v2gnu]
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > > I must be dense today.  How would that help people to know whether a 
> > > given zip file is newer than what they have on their machines, and that 
> > > therefore they need to download it?
> > 
> > It wouldn't, directly, unless you used
> > http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/ to look inside it first.
> > However, it might be a reasonable compromise, allowing people to
> > verify their installed version against what people tell them is the
> > latest.
> 
> That's okay with me.  Frank, does this solution settle your problems?
> 
I have followed the links and tried to retrieve

    http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/simtel/v2gnu/lgp2811s.zip

only to enter a circular loop reporting that `lgp2811s' had been moved
temporarily to the *above* location.  My web server is a front end that
operates "lynx" on wilkes1 to make the actual connection.  When this
problem appeared on simtelnet recently the workaround was to use

    ftp://...

instead.  This didn't work with "delorie.com".

In any case it seems like a very complicated way to get information
which should be provided at each mirror site.

Regards,
Frank