From: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>
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Subject: Re: zippo
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 09:33:17 +0200
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Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> 
> > The zippo hompage states:
> > Automatic FTP or HTTP downloads of needed packages
> >
> > I couldn't find that topic in the docs.
> > Can anyone explain this, please.
> 
> I can. Automatic downloading is listed under ``current design aims'',
I simply overlooked that :-)
but nevertheless there could be some footnote stating
which of the aimes are already hit. (maybe overlooked also)
> which is not quite like ``currently implemented features''. It's kinda
> hard to achieve FTP/HTTP under DOS anyway. We may solve this problem
> by bundling zippo with windows port of wget, which would get files for
> zippo, but don't hold your breath. Yet.

Thanks for attention, bye

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