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- From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: Sumex is in need of a restucturing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.030645.17703@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <1992Dec31.174208.25214@nmsu.edu> <BRECHER.92Dec31192928@husc8.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:06:45 GMT
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- [Rave about sumex structure being awful deleted]
- [Rave about mac.archive structure being great deleted]
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- There is, however, one major advantage to the sumex structure that the
- mac.archive structure does not have. BECAUSE sumex is mainly one-level
- directories, one can ftp there, type 'ls -lrt' and immediately see where to
- look for new stuff. This is complely impractical with mac.archive. You have
- to download the new additions file then step through it file by file,
- continually cd'ing up three layers and down another three.
-
- If the archives ran on decent computers that could be configured to reflect
- changes in subdirectory contents in the date published by 'ls -ltr' I would
- be willing to live with a many-layer system, but given the way things now
- work, I avoid mac.archive if I possibly can do so.
-
- Just my opinion,
- Maynard Handley
-