From: brownsta AT concentric DOT net (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: announce: VIM5 release "v" for DOS
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:27:04 -0500
Organization: Oak Road Systems
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In article <6bcvvd$k01 AT eve DOT enteract DOT com>, jfn AT enteract DOT com (Jeremy 
Nelson) wrote:
>[posted, but NOT emailed.  Doing both is uncool.]
>
>In article <34D7E715 DOT 5719 AT primenet DOT com>, imbe AT primenet DOT com (Smith A. Cat) 
>! I have uploaded a binary of the latest *beta* release of VIM (release
>! "v") to my VIM for DOS page:
>! http://www.primenet.com/~imbe/vim/index.html
>
>Stan Brown <brownsta AT concentric DOT net> wrote:
>>I'm confused. Since Bram himself makes DOS and Windows betas available at
>>	ftp://ftp.oce.nl/pub/vim/beta-test/pc/
>>what's the purpose of your site?
>
>You mean "Mirroring", and the general idea is to be able to get a rather
>large software package from as close to you as possible. 

But it's not mirroring. His zip file is different from Bram's. He 
recompiled, for one thing, as he said in a part of his announcement that 
I didn't quote.

I agree with you on the utility of mirrors (though I've had no trouble 
downloading from Bram's server), but that's not what we're talking about 
here.

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