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From: Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
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Subject: Re: Where is 4.5, 4.6, etc. on the FTP sites ?
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I am not here to go into a lengthy justification as to why I need the
older ones (damn, I just knew the answers would all be "but why would you
not just upgrade")

The point is, why are they not on the ftp sites anymore ?

I suspect there is no good reason for it at all - just a totally arbitrary
decision to remove things that didn't hurt anyone to keep around.

I think i am going to go remove all the faucet handles in my bathrooms.
Sound strange ?  It is not any more of a pointless and arbitrary removal
of functionality than what was removed from the ftp sites.



On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, JacobRhoden wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 03:37 pm, Josh Brooks wrote:
> > But on the outside chance that older versions (4.5, 4.6, 4.6.1) are
> > _actually_ not on the ftp servers, can someone explain why, and where I
> > can get them from ?
>
> You could just install 4.8-RELEASE, then use cvsup to 'downgrade' the source
> to any date you like, or any 4.x you like (:
>
> _____________________________
> JacobRhoden - http://rhoden.id.au/
>