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Once upon a time Bevis Peters (bevis@apg.ph.ucl.ac.uk) wrote:

>: I don't like Hensas structure. You usually only find things if you
>: exactly know what you are looking for. If you just want to browse
>: a bit through what's available e.g. in the grfx section, you'll have
>: to look through all available files.
>
>The one _really_ big advantage of the HENSA layout over the other sites
>in my mind is that it's in chronological order. Unfortunately, this doesn't
>entirely outweigh the apparently absurd directory structure, but then I
>don;t know a thing about their system setup.

The other big advantage of HENSA's structure is that it's real easy for a
program to read the index, display new/updated packages and let me order
them by (eg.) FTPmail. I wrote this program some time ago. Unfortunately,
there is no EASY way to do this on other FTP sites. :-(

I wish they all had a HENSA directory structure.

Ofcourse, If all FTP-sites kept a good up-to-date) index- or lslR-file of
the entire directory-tree I think I could modify the program sufficiently to
make it work on any site...

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