Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:26:53 -0400
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> >   http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2/djdev203.zip&name=djdev203.zip
> 
> This has a disadvantage of being very long, so it would be hard to use
> those URLs in the FAQ, for example.

One could say "go to http://www.simtel.net/pub/djgpp/ and get v2/djdev203.zip"

I'll ask simtel if they can hack the URLs to allow shorter ones.

> I hope this will solve the problem with one of the 3 main mirros being
> stale, which caused its stale files to propagate to other mirrors.

Nope.  They're stuck, they shouldn't be using those old IPs anyway.
It's been "fixed" on the simtel end for a while now.  We'd have to
track down the individual site maintainers and get them to fix their
ends.