Re: Release timestamps for archaic tarballs

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

sfeam <sf...@us...>:
> On Monday, 16 October 2017 11:23:22 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Pieter-Tjerk de Boer <p.t...@ut...>:
> > > Well, as Ethan pointed out, the version I have at
> > >   http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/tmp/gnuplot-2.0.tar.gz
> > > seems to be 1.1.0 from January 26, 1987, predating the others, so I guess
> > > including it would make sense.
> > 
> > The mainplot directory looks like a primitive GNUPLOT, all right.  Do you
> > have any idea what that stuff in the other two drectories is?
> 
> The help directory contains a bunch of small files, each with text help
> on one topic.  The gnuplot "help" command didn't exist yet.
> 
> The plotdocs directory contains a utility and makefile that stitches those help
> files together into nroff format.

How, if at all, do you want this included?  The whole thing? The mainplot
directory only?
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