[TAG] Back issues of lg as pdbs

[Thomas Adam]

 --- Mike Orr <mso at oz.net> 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.

Hence I agree that generating them on-the-fly (talking of that,
congratulations, Ben!!) is a far better thing to do. And as it was pointed
out, a simple:

for i in $(seq a b); do ... done;

is all that is required.

-- Thomas Adam

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