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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 22:09:28 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: DSMs and DJGPP packages
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Hello.

DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > DJ, if you need to modify the script in CVS to make it run better as a
> > cron job, please do. Could you send some notification to
> > zippo-workers, if you do modify it?
> 
> I didn't need to modify the script, but I did wrap it in a perl script
> that scans the ftp area for new zips and only runs it if there's
> actually something to do, and takes care of deleting old versions.  It
> should run every night from now on.

Thanks, DJ. That will be particularly useful when zippo can download
packages automatically off the web (like apt-get on Debian) using wget.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe
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