a665@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang) (10/19/90)
ianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU writes: > [...] > uploading illegal programs. Some of the stuff is so old that newer versions > have appeared. Why can't somebody remove the old versions when a newer one > supercedes it? Some of us would love to...however, when files were moved over from xanth to abcfd20, some of the permissions got changed. For example, the incoming/amiga/modula2_benchmark directory can not be written to...which is why there's now an .../modula2_benchmarknew directory :(
ianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian ROWLANDS) (10/19/90)
The uploading seems to be getting out of hand, apart from people uploading illegal programs. Some of the stuff is so old that newer versions have appeared. Why can't somebody remove the old versions when a newer one supercedes it? Also, can we have certain progams removed if they are more than a certain age? Fish disks 313 and 314 were uploaded when they weren't available months ago, and THEY ARE STILL THERE! Nobody needs them, they can get them from the site that archives fish disks. Same for fish disk 362. If people freely upload there, surely they can freely moderate the material there? If you uploaded it, you should delete it when it gets old and available elsewhere. Also check if a version already exists (i.e the various 64 emulator versions there), and delete if it's there (and works!). If stuff makes it onto Fish disks, then delete it as well. I can't trace what gets uploaded, as there is so much there. I'm probably missing many useful programs, but I can't notice them among the large volume. How about having a directory where a short description of each program is put, SEPERATE from where the programs are? Having short readme files among files only adds to the length of the directory listing. Don't take this as the only idea - I'm just suggesting something that I think may work, but other suggestions are welcome. Maybe Tad has some ideas? We now return you to Mac discussions (I'll pop over to c.s.a.tech where they actually TALK about the Amiga, unlike here). Ian Ian Rowlands | Work : ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au Dept. of Electrical Engineering, | OR munnari!mullian!ianr@uunet.uu.net (including Computer Science) | Home : ianr@gpark.pub.uu.oz.au (soon) University of Melbourne | OR munnari!labtam!eyrie!gpark!ianr@uunet