Re: ver 1.18

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz at teknowledge dot com>]

Chris,

I think something has gone awry. Take a look at this transcript of an FTP 
session with sunsite.utk.edu:

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1005> ftp sunsite.utk.edu
Connected to sunsite.utk.edu.
220 sunsite.utk.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(4) Fri Aug 4 11:27:56 EDT 2000) ready.
Name (sunsite.utk.edu:Randall R Schulz): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-Welcome to SunSITE USA at the University of Tennessee.
230-
230- ... [ Crypto restrictions elided ]
230-
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd /pub/cygwin/latest/cygwin
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -l
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 43320
-rw-r--r--   1 1              0 Jan 30 21:48 .in.cygwin-1.1.8-1-src.tar.gz.
-rw-r--r--   1 1              0 Jan 30 21:47 .in.cygwin-1.1.8-1.tar.gz.
-rw-r--r--   1 1              0 Jan 31 15:10 .in.cygwin-1.1.8-2-src.tar.gz.
-rw-r--r--   1 1              0 Jan 31 15:09 .in.cygwin-1.1.8-2.tar.gz.
-r--r--r--   1 0        4464526 Aug  4  2000 cygwin-1.1.4-src.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 0        1379935 Aug  4  2000 cygwin-1.1.4.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 0        4698096 Nov 11 06:52 cygwin-1.1.5-7-src.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 0         515323 Nov 11 06:52 cygwin-1.1.5-7.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 0        4733212 Nov 22 02:03 cygwin-1.1.6-1-src.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 0         652789 Nov 22 02:03 cygwin-1.1.6-1.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 0        4834499 Dec 25 17:43 cygwin-1.1.7-1-src.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 0         662323 Dec 25 17:42 cygwin-1.1.7-1.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 0            814 Jan 31 15:49 md5.sum
-r--r--r--   1 0          84147 Oct 13 20:03 newlib-man-20001013.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 0          64618 Nov 18 18:18 newlib-man-20001118.tar.gz
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quit
221-You have transferred 0 bytes in 0 files.
221-Total traffic for this session was 2785 bytes in 1 transfers.
221-Thank you for using the FTP service on sunsite.utk.edu.
221 Goodbye.1006>
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The 1.1.8 files look amiss to me. Similar situations exist in latest/mingw, 
latest/w32api. In all cases, there are files whose names begin with ".in." 
followed by what would be an ordinary tarball file name. In each case, these 
".in." files are empty.

Randall Schulz
Teknowledge Corp.
Palo Alto, CA USA


t 17:03 2/1/2001, you wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:31:12PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>>On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>Actually, the UK mirror that I explicitly mentioned in my announcement
>>>email has the current version, amazingly enough.
>>
>>Perhaps it'll be easier on you and the rest of the list if the
>>announcement came a day or two after putting up the files so most of
>>the "quick" mirrors pick it up.  Then again, you're probably doing that
>>already.
>
>Yes, I am.  I check to make sure that the three mirrors I use have the
>packages.  If I waited for every mirror to get the package, I'd be waiting
>for a long time.
>
>It's standard practice for all of us to wait for our packages to show
>up on a few mirrors before announcing the change.
>
>cgf
>
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