From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 04:25:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA01602 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 04:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA01597 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 04:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-9.ime.net [206.231.148.138]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA02182; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 07:24:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3209CE6D.5C37@ime.net> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 07:24:29 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Nordier CC: dgy@rtd.com, fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perhaps i am just stupid. References: <199608081033.MAA00150@eac.iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Robert Nordier wrote: > > Gary Chrysler wrote: > > > I think we're in agreement. Text-based should be fine if it has > the functionality. I rather liked the idea of starting with the > supplied checksum file, and verifying the existence and integrity > of the distribution files from that. > Yup.. > Anyway, this seems to have become The Thread That Would Not Die, > so I'll leave the discussions to those who might actually want to > do the work. :) I always welcome input. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848