Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 94 11:42:55 JST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	elston DOT tsw AT mhs DOT elan DOT af DOT mil
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Problems with DJGPP 1.11 (GAS 2.11) AT WUARCHIVE

For those of you who don't pay attention to messages or have an FTP
client like DESQview's File Manager that doesn't print them.

WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU got completely trashed by an OS bug about January
12, 1994, and they did not have recent backup tapes due to tape drive
hardware problems they didn't know about.  Therefore it's not
necessarily clear what is on their disk at the moment.   Be extremely
careful to verify versions of *anything* you get there.  DJ tried
pretty hard to come up with a 8.3 compatible naming scheme that was
sufficiently informative, and there just aren't enough characters in a
DOS filename to tell you everything.  Lots of other authors don't even
try, or don't have the version control scheme automated into their
release building scripts, or whatever.

I don't know, WUARCHIVE may be in good shape by the time you read
this; these guys are pros.  But three days ago they were still
scrambling, and in the heat of the moment they may have made a mistake
or two.

So just watch out, for your own safety.

    --Steve

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