Thank you Vita! And unfortunately, my browser history on the original machine doesn't go back far enough back to when I first needed texinfo 4.2, so I don't have my original source location documented. However I did find a sourceforge mailing archive from 2002 which lists a matching md5 to my archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04411.html
Unlike the Fedora texinfo, mine is a tar.gz archive, not a tar.bz2. ~Rob On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:22 AM Vitezslav Crhonek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/19/23 08:12, Gavin Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Krum wrote: > >> Greetings, > >> I've noticed that texinfo release 4.2 is missing from gnu's ftp > archives, > >> but the manual still exists for it in the old-gnu archive. Texinfo 4.2 I > >> believe is the latest release that can be used to make binutils 2.16.1a. > >> I've found myself a copy, however I have nothing to prove it's a copy of > >> the original, unmodified release. Would it be possible to add this to > the > >> ftp for preservation purposes? Thanks! > > > > I would like to get all the previous Texinfo releases if possible. Would > > you email me the distribution file you have off-list and any information > > you have about its provenance? > > > > Hi, > > Releases of texinfo used in Fedora can be found here (texinfo-4.2 > included): > https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/texinfo/ > > Given to Fedora guidelines they all should be unmodified. Later releases > are stored also with signature file. > > Hope this helps > Vita > >
