From: arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke) Subject: Re: Index of ftp sites Date: 17 Jul 1992 16:08:43 GMT
In article <1992Jul16.142838.10839@cc.umontreal.ca> duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
: I know this is burdening ftp site operators but... is it possible to maintain
: some kind of index that could be ftp'ed so we, the people, can decide what
: files might be useful, without having to download 1.2 MB of data,
: uncompressing, untaring, reading the README... and then finding out "Hey! I
: don't need this at all." ?
That's why nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux has INDEX file, and
the README file tells you how to use the system (if you put
something to incoming directory).
Thanks for Hannu Aronsson for the great idea (he's the keeper of
Japan area at nic.funet.fi).
: Laurent Duperval
arl