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Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:55:12 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DSM/scripting spec, version 0.1
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Hello.

Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe wrote:
> > simtelnet-path: [e.g. v2tk/ - this is for auto-FTP or HTTP downloading]
> 
> Why stick to simtel.net? What about simple ftp-path?

I should explain what I meant more. 'simtelnet-path' is the sub-directory
of the DJGPP archive in which the zip file is stored. I was going to code
zippo with a list of Simtelnet archives for FTP download. The user could
then select the nearest/fastest/most recent FTP mirror and download the
package from there, i.e. using:

<FTP mirror>/<simtelnet-path>/<zip>

BTW I think we require two new entries in addition to web-site & ftp-site:

ftp-url: [URL]
http-url: [URL]

These would specify where the zip could be downloaded from, in addition to
the Simtelnet archives.

I think I may borrow the FTP/HTTP code from GNU wget. zippo will be GPL'd.

> I suggest adding "host-os" field because e.g. djcrx*.zip is for UNIXes
> only and UNIX won't need DPMI server. This is going to be more important
> if we will port our utilities to unix.

Agreed. This will default to DOS if nothing else is specified. So, for the
Unix packages, one could do:

   host-os: != dos
or host-os: dos >= 5