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>Conway> When I wrote that RCS will not work with ftp, I meant that it is a ftp
>Conway> user can not ftp gcc version 1.15 (or some such) directly from the gcc
>Conway> RCS source tree.  Isn't this the case?
>
>What you could do is set up an E-mail server which would get things
>for you. For instance:
>
>The message:
>From user@host Wed Feb 30 00:00:00 1999
>Subject: send program:gcc version:2.0
>
>the response:
>cd /tmp
>setenv CVSROOT /where/it/lives
>cvs co -Q -r V2_0 gcc
>tar cvzf - gcc | uuencode gcc-2.0.tar.Z | mail -s gcc-2.0 user@host
>cvs release -Q -d gcc
>
>You might want to split the mail ;-)

Using a mail server to get at the files you need is much less
desirable than ftp.  This is why people with access to both rarely, if
ever, use mail servers. 

Assuming what I think about ftp and rcs is true, this wouldn't fly.
I, for one, like the convenience of ftp.  In order for an archive to
work well on the net, it must be accessible by ftp.  To restrict
access to an archive by using a mail server just so that the archive
can use rcs would cause the archive to sink into obscurity.  In the
case of prep, it would go a long way to hurt the cause of free
software.



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