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to: MARK LEWIS
from: BEN RITCHEY
date: 2004-06-02 20:13:10
subject: Re: New File(s)

* An ongoing debate between Mark Lewis and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

 BR>>>>  BZFLAG10.TGZ   4,183,614  05-31-04    18:26:28
 BR>>>>          -- description missing --
 ML: > no, i didn't hatch it... besides, it looks like it is the original
 ML: > from the maintainer's site... its up to them to put in a file_id.diz
 ML: > if they want to... other than that, the descriptions should also be
 ML: > able to be taken/carried from the one the hatcher types in when doing
 ML: > the hatch... that's what my system does with allfix... if there's a
 ML: > file_id.diz, it is taken in preference to the manually typed
 ML: > description...

Same difference, as long as there's something in the TIC, so it wasn't meant
for you anyway .

BTW, Filegate guidelines (AFAIK, Janis?) recommend File_ID.Diz and an archive
format that allows banner info to be added ...

--
Be well,

 : Ben   aka cMech    http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/
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