Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!panda!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ICST-CMR.ARPA!rbj From: rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 18.32 Message-ID: <8612280125.AA07347@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA> Date: Sat, 27-Dec-86 20:25:11 EST Article-I.D.: icst-cmr.8612280125.AA07347 Posted: Sat Dec 27 20:25:11 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Dec-86 02:35:42 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 37 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 I *almost* succeeded in getting the latest version before it became out-of-date.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 CottrellAnd furthermore, my bowling average is unimpeachable!!!