From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer) Subject: Re: NEW linux ftp site (banjo ressurected) Date: 13 Aug 1992 21:16:50 GMT
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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