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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:19:25 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: Re: DSMs and DJGPP packages
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Hello.

DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Another idea I had was to put DSMs in a package of their own. Then
> > zippo's upgrade facility could be used to update the DSMs available
> > to zippo.
> 
> I could probably write a cron job to extract dsm files from all the
> zips in the ftp area and build one master file from it, if you have a
> spec for the format.

What do you mean by "a spec for the format"? Do you mean a DSM for the
package of DSMs? Or a general layout of the package?

I have a mirror of the DJGPP archive, so I could knock up a script to do
this and provide a DSM for the package. I was thinking it would use MD5
hashes of the DSMs extracted from packages, so that it did not produce a
new package of DSMs unnecessarily.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe
http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/