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- From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
- Subject: Re: using .zoo files?
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:42:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bu1xvD.21p@epix.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >The ftp-os2.nmsu.edu site is very friendly. (I helped make it that
- >way. :-)) Read the 00ReadMe file in /pub/os2 and all will be
- >revealed. :-)
-
- Not really that friendly --- if only dir listings would be with file
- dates; everybody would know then whether a file has been replaced, is
- new and so on...
- this little feature alone (I bet) would save several megabytes
- of wasted downloads a day...
-
- This is the only ftp server I know that does not show file dates
- when doing ls -al or dir!
-
- - Clemens
-