Re: FlashTools 1.0 released

[about when uploading files to www.hpcalc.org,
possibly also uploading a copy to a "temp file URL"
for faster access to people who are in a hurry]

The very calc application that I mentioned as an example
(the "RAS30 Logistic Regression" program
which I ported from "48" to "49" and sent back to "hpcalc")
did eventually get added to www.hpcalc.org,
but only the first version which contained
a bad binary file got put on the site.

I had already sent the corrected version to "hpcalc"
even before its first appearance,
and have since sent yet another, in case that earlier one
got lost somewhere, but it has been months since I did that,
and the version remaining posted at "hpcalc" is still the bad original.

Eric does an outstanding service by maintaining his wonderful site,
so I assume that he's much too busy with demands and responsibilities
of "real life" to keep up with everything that's sent to the site;
thus the thought that I'm putting forth here
is not to put files anywhere else *instead* of hpcalc,
but just a way to make an *extra*copy* downloadable at once,
if an author desires, to relieve any pressure on "hpcalc"
to catch up with the backlog, or on users to keep waiting for them.

Temporary file posting services like "filefactory.com"
generally fill a need for people to send "oversize"
attachments which are too big for their ISP (or Yahoo etc.)
email to handle, but they can also serve to expedite
the delivery of any other files which are stuck
in a long pipeline; the files are available only at
temporary URLs that aren't indexed by any web crawlers,
so they would never be in competition with "hpcalc,"
which is where the file is destined to appear anyway,
except via snail mail -- it's just a way
to get the Post Office to do a "special delivery"
a bit faster than waiting for the usual mailman :)

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