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- From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: NEW linux ftp site (banjo ressurected)
- Message-ID: <2178@fnnews.fnal.gov>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 21:16:50 GMT
- References: <4514@news.duke.edu>
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- In article <4514@news.duke.edu> magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
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- >This ftp site is trying to be compliant with the IAFA guidelines on archives,
- >which are (imho) Good Things. Part of that is to fill in the form below (copies
- >of which are available on archives.cc.mcgill.ca in /iafa). If you can take
- >the time to fill this thing out and upload it as package.iafa (where package
- >is the tar.Z file you are uploading) into incoming, It will help us make our
- >archives available through WAIS and the other cool tools we are working on
- >here.
- Could *you* make those incoming description files, or a digest of them
- per directory, available to us the downloaders? I can't count the number
- of times I've seen things like, hundreds of references to "MGR" without
- anyone saying what it *is*, or a file named "grfl103.b.tar.Z" that I
- can't tell whether it's a tar of "gurfle" or "graflib" 1.0.3... Usually
- people are fairly good about the latter, but some times it's not obvious
- what a file is even when the name is not shortened (e.g. shadow.tar.Z),
- unless of course you know beforehand.
-
- Of course, this would mean more work for the archive maintainers, but
- especially when you've already got the info it's not too terribly
- hard to cat foo >> ~ftp/pub/linux/bar/baz/qux/descriptions...
-
- Anyone else think such a thing would be worth it? Or am I just
- one of those pitiful little whiners who's morally opposed to a
- kernel without bus mouse support? (:-)
-
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- [oops, deleted the .sig too, sorry]
-
- Keith
- (rohrer@fncrd0.fnal.gov)
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