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- From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: DISASTER AT MIT!!!!!
- Date: 2 Sep 1992 19:46:33 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1835mpINNj7s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <92246.130256MXD120@psuvm.psu.edu> <180toaINNnaa@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
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- In a previous article, MXD120@psuvm.psu.edu (Beaker) says:
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- >In article <180toaINNnaa@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A.
- >Lewis) says:
- >>
- >>Someone seriously need to do some housekeeping in the LINUX directories
- >>on TSX-11.MIT.EDU. It's a wreck.
- >>
- >
- >This is a very selfish thing to say. For one thing, the maintainer of
- >tsx-11 is keeping the archives out of his own kind heart. Second,
- >what is wrong with them? IMHO, everything is where it should be. It's
- >not like there are 10,000 files in /pub/linux. There is also a ls-ltr
- >file there if you get confused with all the nested directories. Just
- >get the file, and print it out on a line printer. Tsx-11 is also set
- >up with symbolic links to make life easier.
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- If you have time, take a look a nic.funet.fi and the Linux directories.
- Everything is up to date there and there aren't any old FAQS or images
- laying around. Too bad it's so far away. We need a closer mirror.
-
- Don'tget me wrong. I TRULY appreciate the guy on TSX-11.
- I just think it intimidates beginners when they ftp to it. Such was
- the case with me. AND WE ALL WANT TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF INSTALLATION
- QUESTIONS AROUND HERE, right?
-
-
- BTW, is there any docs with the numbers 0.97 or 0.97.1 in them?
-
- Later
-
- --
- MaThiEu a. LeWis "There is no middle ground/Or that's how it seems/For
- Thieves Like Us us to walk or to take/Instead we tumble down/Either
- mal11@po.cwru.edu side left or right/To love or to hate."
- -A Strange Kind of Love
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