Hi Jim, > Just wanted to let you know that I did a little cleanup on the FreeDOS > files archive at Ibiblio.
Okay. > Over the history of using the files archive on Ibiblio, I haven't really > done a great job at keeping things clean. For example, there was one > directory for FreeDOS Choice at /files/dos/choice > <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/choice/> and > /all/ of the releases for FreeDOS Choice lived there, just dumped in one > directory listing: > > choice201.zip > choice20.zip > choice30.zip > choice31.zip > choice33.zip > choice35a.zip > choice35b.zip > choice35.zip > choice36a.zip > choice36b.zip > choice36c.zip > choice36d.zip > choice36e.zip > choice36.zip > choice37.zip > choice38a.zip > choice38b.zip > choice38.zip > choice41.zip > choice42a.zip > choice42b.zip > choice43a.zip > choice43.zip > choice44s.zip > choice44x.zip > > > > If you wanted to get the latest version of FreeDOS Choice, what file > would you download? Would you grab the first one on the list > (choice201.zip) or the last file in the list (choice44x.zip)? If you > know the history of FreeDOS Choice, you would know that choice201.zip is > version 2.01, and choice44x.zip is version 4.4. I would have hoped to find "files" named latests.zip and latestx.zip (or something like that), which always link to the latest version. > 4.2: > alt_TE/ choice42a.zip choice42b.zip > 4.3: > alt_TE/ choice43a.zip choice43.zip What is "alt_TE"? > I haven't finished going through /all/ the directories on Ibiblio yet .. > that will take months. But wanted to let folks know I was doing it. "Even the longest journey..." You know it. ;-) Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
