BZIP link broken

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.GSO.4.05.9810281713460.4417-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at >
you write:
  > On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > >> Jeff, I tried to fix that problem by myself (the file is now called
  > >> "bzip2-0.9.0b.tar.gz"), but this resides in FTP space and is probably
  > >> generated by a script of yours.
  > >> 
  > >> Can you please change this manually (or tell me how to do that myself)?
  > > ?  It's just a copy of a tarball.  If we need a newer one that's fine, ju
  > st
  > > tell me where to get it.
  > 
  > Sorry for being unclear. What I ment was that at
  >   ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html
  > the link to 
  >   ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/infrastructure/bzip2-0.1pl2.tar.gz
  > should be replaced by 
  >   ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/infrastructure/bzip2-0.9.0b.tar.gz
  > 
  > Or, along the lines of that private e-mail between you and me, you might
  > simply remove the sentence
  > 
  >   ``We've placed a copy of bzip2 on our server here.''
  > 
  > only leaving a link to the bzip2 homepage.
Normally I'd agree 100%, but I want to make bzip as easy to find and download
as possible since in the end if people use bzip (and download the bzip'd
tarballs instead of the gzip'd tarballs), then Cygnus's network link won't
melt as quickly :-) :-)

Apparently Jason updated our copy of bzip on our ftp server, I didn't
know that had happened -- thus my confusion about the out of date link.

I think the best thing to do is update the link (I've just done that) and
continue to keep a link to the bzip home page too.

Thanks for your patience...  I can be rather dense at times.

jeff

ps.  That file isn't auto-generated (yet).  I do want to auto-generate the
html files for the release & snapshot directories in the long term.  Less
work for me (or whomever takes over release & snapshot duties in the future).