[TAG] Back issues of lg as pdbs

[Ben Okopnik]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:16:14PM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:56:12AM -0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> > Can the pdbs be made available on the ftp site?
> 
> linuxgazette.net doesn't have an FTP site.  It now uses a portion of
> the website for tarball downloads.
> 
> The biggest issue with putting Palm-format files in that directory is
> they will be picked up by the mirrors.  We'd have to check with the
> mirrors whether the bandwidth/size would be a hardship.  We also look
> at how widely used the files would be.  The tarballs can be used on any
> platforms with any OS.  Palm files work only with certain brands of
> palmtops and exclude everything else.

Actually, AFAIK, the Palm Reader is available for several different
platforms; certainly for Wind0ws, WinCE and both of the Linux distros
made for the iPaq. However, I agree that we shouldn't clutter our
tarballs with these things; that was the point of doing this stuff "on
the fly" for the folks who want it.


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