X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Message-ID: <3C83EDAC.745D3B4@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 21:57:00 +0000 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Dircategories and (tex|txi|texi|texinfo]) files References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Hello. Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Richard Dawe wrote: [snip] > > I'll add this to my list of things to do for zippo. Right now this isn't > > at the top, since I'm working on getting automatic HTTP/FTP downloads > > with wget, which is more important right now IMHO. > > I'd rather think that to get the installation procedure DTRT is more > important than to have Web-based upgrades: there are alternative to > the latter, but a messed-up DIR file is much harder to fix, since it > requires the knowledge of an Info format, something most users lack. Well, it looks like I hadn't got very far with web downloading. (I dunno - I go away for a couple of weeks and my memory goes. 8) ). Anyway, I'm going to do a zippo release this weekend, since there are a lot of bugfixes in CVS. I'll make zippo print out the suggested install-info commands, rather than running them. Thanks, bye, Rich =] -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]