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From: tjb@unhd.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Archives
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.202501.9499@unhd.unh.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 20:25:01 GMT
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In article <792@mara.cognet.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
>
>Could the archive  keepers please create a  new directory, called  say 2.0, in
>which stuff that runs under 2.0, lives? Some of this may  just be links to old
>other software, but it would help a lot of users to not download software that
>then crashes the computer.
>

While we are on the subject of archive servers, would it be possible to have
some mechanism along the lines of a RECENT.FILES file?  I know I can get the
0ls-lR file and grep it for the current or yesterday's date, but when you 
don't check for a week or so, this can become tedious.  It wasn't as bad when
the INDEX files weren't updated each night:  you could tell by the dates on 
the directories if there were any new files but no more.

This is not intended as a flame, just a polite request.  I certainly can live
if it can't be done.

Thanks,

tjb

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