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
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