From:	jfn AT enteract DOT com (Jeremy Nelson)
Newsgroups:	comp.editors,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: announce: VIM5 release "v" for DOS
Date:	5 Feb 1998 18:21:33 GMT
Organization:	Damage, org.
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[posted, but NOT emailed.  Doing both is uncool.]

In article <34D7E715 DOT 5719 AT primenet DOT com>, imbe AT primenet DOT com (Smith A. Cat) 
! I have uploaded a binary of the latest *beta* release of VIM (release
! "v") to my VIM for DOS page:
!
! http://www.primenet.com/~imbe/vim/index.html

Stan Brown <brownsta AT concentric DOT net> wrote:
>I'm confused. Since Bram himself makes DOS and Windows betas available at
>	ftp://ftp.oce.nl/pub/vim/beta-test/pc/
>what's the purpose of your site?
>
>I don't mean to be rude, but at best it seems like duplication.

You mean "Mirroring", and the general idea is to be able to get a rather
large software package from as close to you as possible.  Sure, you could
get vim from the netherlands, but if someone took the time to put it
up here in north america, youll get it faster, and youll save precious
intercontinental bandwidth, getting it from the mirror...

FYI.
Jeremy

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