Re: NCFTP package

[Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>]

Hello, Marcus!

Just in case you don't know

> Great, I added to my lsit of very clean packages, which is now:
> 
> ae (962-23.1),          an (0.93-1.1),          bc (1.05a-4),
> bison (1.25.90-2),      bzip2 (0.9.0c-2),       cvs (1.10.4-1),

bison-1.27
cvs-1.10.6

> db (2.4.14),            diff (2.7-18),          diffstat (1.27-1),
> ed (0.2-17),            flex (2.5.4a-4),        grep (2.3-2),
> groff (1.11a-7.1),      gzip (1.2.4-29),        inetutils (1.3.2-4),

gzip-1.2.4a

> jed (0.98.7-14),        less (332-4.1),         libglib (1.2),

glib-1.2.3

> libident (0.21-7),      libpng (1.0.2b-0.1),    lynx (2.8.1-7),

lynx-2.8.2 !!!
Which planet do you live on ???

> make (3.77-6),          mawk (1.3.3-2),         minicom (1.82-3),

Cool! RedHat ships mawk-1.2.2

> mpack (1.5-5),          ncftp,                  pcre2 (2.05-1),
> pinfo,                  procmail (3.10.7-7),    sed (3.02-1),

sed-3.02a

> sharutils (4.2-9),      svgalib-dummy (1.2.13-2),tar (1.12-7),

svgalib-1.3.1
svgalib-1.4.0 prerelease (http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~zivav/svgalib/) with
native (non-VESA) ATI support.

> wget (1.5.3-1.1)

New versions are released to be used, not to be ignored.
Don't forget that people spend time (often without being paid) to improve
their programs. Imagine how disappointed they might be.

The Hurd has not to be so stable as Linux for the near future anyway.

Anyway, thank you for your work!

Pavel Roskin