Re: [Gnu-arch-users] cannot upload archive to my ISP

[Aaron Bentley]

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > The   other  dot   file  used   by  the   arch  archive   format  is
> > .archive-version
>
>
> Is there any particular reason why  these file names start with a `.'?
> They could well have been named =listing or anything else, isn't it ?

It looks like they could have been named anything.  .listing is pretty 
common for filename lists, but it's surprising archive-version is a 
hidden file.

Still, that train has sailed.  It's part of the archive format now, and 
changing it would break existing implementations.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.