[KLUG Members] LATEST-IS

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Thu Jul 7 15:54:57 EDT 2005


> I've downloaded a file gedit-2.10.3.tar.gz. There's also a file called
> LATEST-IS-2.10.3.
> It's also a .tar.gz, but without the extensions.
> What is that file? 

Probably a sym-link on the FTP server to the most recent tar ball.  Some
sites do this,  it does make the most recent version more obvious, since
the sorting of file names can get a little confusing in a large
directory.



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