LYNX-DEV Lynx on Gnu FTP site (was re: http://www.gnu.org/software/)

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Sat, 24 May 1997, Karl Heuer wrote:
> rms asked me to update prep.  I see that we currently have a
> copy of lynx itself (2-7, as you noted) *and* a lynx.README file;
> normally we only have one or the other.  (And for packages that
> are not maintained by GNU people, we normally just provide the
> pointer to the true ftp site.)
> 
> According to our packages-ftp database, ftp2.cc.ukans.edu is the
> master site for this package.  But I just checked, and it doesn't
> seem to have anything newer than lynx2-7.

Thanks for updating prep.ai.mit.edu!  The only minor nit is the 
numbering scheme.  Lynx versions have historically been identified
with dashes rather than periods, since VMS apparently allows only
one dot per file name.  So lynx-2.7.1 should be called lynx2-7-1.


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