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From: rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim)
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 18.32
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Date: Sat, 27-Dec-86 20:25:11 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 27 20:25:11 1986
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	I sure appreciated whoever did the split of the 18.31 version.
	I *almost* succeeded in getting the latest version before it
	became out-of-date.  It seems to be almost impossible for anyone
	to get the whole thing in one ftp copy.  I have certainly wasted
	lots of resources trying.  Something better is required.

Really. It seems that mit-prep is really loaded these days. I got my last
few copys from harvard and utsally. Perhaps A listing of secondary
distribution sites would help. 
	
	If someone would take charge of splitting the latest version
	in addition to compressing it that would be great.  I understand that
	Stallman is not interested in this extra task.  Any volunteers?
	
The solution seems obvious to me. Make a distribution file from each major
directory: src, lisp, etc, ... I wonder how many useless copies of the
shortnames and cpp directories have flown over the net. Bet they don't
change much either.

	While you're at it, it would help to know the compression factor and
	the check sum of each split file.  I found that ftp may not catch all
	transmission errors and when uncompress complains, it is difficult to
	tell which split file is in error.  Furthermore, uncompress doesn't
	even catch some errors and tar eventually complains - it's been
	frustrating, let me tell you.
	
Agreed. A checksum or at least an ls -l should appear in the top directory.
The creation of these could be easily automated with the tar file creation.
	
	Dan LaLiberte
	liberte@b.cs.uiuc.edu
	liberte@uiuc.csnet
	ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte
	
(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell		
And furthermore, my bowling average is unimpeachable!!!