Re: MSDOS name conversion

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Raul Miller writes ("Re: MSDOS name conversion"):
> [someone:]
>    Perhaps a cgi-bin script can be created to make full package download
>    for splitted packages possible. with ftp this seems unpossible, but a
>    simple `cat' script should be able to do the job on httpd.
> 
> With wu-ftpd, you can have a server-side program generate the
> downloaded file based on a suffix.

Yes, but we can't make sure that our mirror sites have wu-ftpd and the
relevant program, &c.  I think this idea is a non-starter.

Ian.