RE: [h-e-w] difficulty obtaining ntemacs

[Eli Daniel]

Yes, this frustrated me too for some time -- I eventually discovered that
the GNU ftp servers were compromised and they're still reassembling the
bits, making sure that nobody did a Ken Thompson* on their software.

However, there are several GNU mirrors which were apparently not compromised
and still have the software available.  The one I've been using is

ftp://aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu

Can the FAQ maintainer put something in about this?


-Eli

* See http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ if you don't know what I'm talking
about -- well worth the read if you've never seen it.


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Subject: [h-e-w] difficulty obtaining ntemacs

where can i get a distribution of the latest release?
one trying to obtain ntemacs based on the information
in the faq will face a maddening goround.

the faq at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html

claims latest distributions of sources and binaries
are at:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/

at this location the latest version is 21.3.
there is nothing in the 21.3 subdirectory but a bunch
of files 
*.back-RSN.README dated 23.10.2003 

all files with this style name are text files which
indicate that the eponymous part (the * part) is gone
and the real thing will be back Real Soon Now - but
notice that the date of these files is 23.10.2003.
the same thing in general is true of subdirectories
for earlier releases.

the faq also lists 8 other sites which supposedly host
distributions, but all but one of them either do not
exist or do not have distributions.
that one is 
ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/ 
the latest distribution there is 20.7 and it is dated
14.6.2000.

where should i go to get this distribution?