PSTricks CTAN updates

[Denis Girou]

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    Sebastian> robin fairbairns records in a list somewhere which CTAN mirrors offer
    Sebastian> the .zip, and .tar.gz functionality. quite a lot do - its very easy if
    Sebastian> they run wuftpd

    Sebastian> definitely not just the UK site...

  I was unclear, sorry...

  I agree (and I know it, as I use that on the french mirrors!) that many CTAN
mirrors have this functionality.

  But the point I would emphasized yesterday concern the two different ways
to use it, by the "ftp" command or the Web protocol (as the primitive question
was related to a Web access). At least from my experience with few sites close
from me, we could not deduce, if this functionality is supported by the "ftp"
line command, that it would work too using the Web protocol "ftp://...".
>From my experience, there are some pitfalls here, or perhaps misconfigurations
of some Web servers, which make a (large or not, I can't say, but large in my
small panel!) part of them to don't manage correctly "ftp://" requirements
when line commands are correctly handle. It was the reason I gave the advice
to use the "ftp" way, which seems more successful.

  For instance, for .tar.gz mode, both ftp.jussieu.fr and ftp.loria.fr handle
correctly "ftp" requests but uncorrectly "ftp://" ones. And for .zip mode,
this is the same thing for ftp.dante.de. In the four sites I test, only
ftp.tex.ac.uk work in any case...

  Another pitfall is that information given at connection is sometimes wrong: 
for instance both ftp.jussieu.fr and ftp.loria.fr give messages at connection
announcing the support of the .zip mode, but it doesn't work in any way.

  I hope to have been clearer!

D.G.


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