Bill McCarthy recently wrote to vim-dev and others:
> Runtime files are kept fairly well updated at the Vim FTP
> site. You can update those files from there. Scripts have
> been provided for 'nix and Windows to update local files.
Only script I found on www.vim.org to help with updating runtime
files involves use of AAP. If there are other scripts, please
provide an exact link to them.
> For Windows, using 4nt, this one-liner will do the update:
>
> copy /[!*~]/u/s ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/dos vrt:
>
> where vrt: is a directory alias for my $VIMRUNTIME.
I am surprised that NT supports /[!*~] as an option to a command!
Anyone know of a version of this command for XP?
I can use perl's lwp-rget to down-load the runtime files to a
separate directory. I can then over-write the entire $VIMRUNTIME
with the downloaded stuff, but do not know how to merely update
$VIMRUNTIME.
--Suresh
