Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:43:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank Donahoe <fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu>
Reply-To: Frank Donahoe <fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu: Patch Level in /v2gnu]
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> >     http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/simtel/v2gnu/lgp2811s.zip
> 
> Put a slash on the end and it should work.
> 
Thanks!

I was so sure that the circumstances were identical to what had happened
with simtelnet that I was unable to see the trailing slash in the
reference to the new temporary location.

The listing would be much more useful for its intended purpose if the
directories were sorted by date of modification, latest date first, like
"ls -t".  Can a simple hidden file in the base directory, simtel or
v2gnu, change the defaults of the directory listings in each subdirectory?

Some way of indicating that an archive has been patched should be
available on the mirror site.  If the archive is of moderate size one may
decide to download the archive rather than trying to get only the modified
files from "www.delorie.com".  When it is a humongous file like
`gcc281s.zip' it might be worth a look at

    http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/simtel/v2gnu/gcc281s.zip/

to retrieve individual files.

The only way I can think of that would be obvious ;-), self-evident ;=))
etc., would be to add a patch level since the major and minor version
numbers of the FSF releases may not be changed.  `mak3761s-p2.zip' would
be understood as the second patched release of the source of make 3.76.1
ported to DJGPP.