Re: PGP26A is out

[Ben.Goren@asu.edu]

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At 3:20 PM 8/18/94, Dave Hodgins wrote:
>   A file has appeared here called PGP26A.ZIP.  The readme file claims
>this version "fixes all known bugs" in the 2.6 version.  I'm very
>suspicious[. . . .]

I'd say you should be. I just took a look at what they have at MIT:

>Tux.Music.ASU.Edu.ben $ ftp net-dist.mit.edu
>Connected to BITSY.MIT.EDU.
>220 bitsy FTP server (Version wu-2.4(1) Thu Apr 14 20:21:35 EDT 1994) ready.
>Name (net-dist.mit.edu:ben): ftp
>331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
>Password:
>230-Welcome, archive user!  This is an experimental FTP server.  If have any
>230-unusual problems, please report them via e-mail to ftp-bugs@bitsy
>230-If you do have problems, please try using a dash (-) as the first
character
>230-of your password -- this will turn off the continuation messages
that may
>230-be confusing your ftp client.
>230-
>230-Please read the file README
>230-  it was last modified on Sat May 28 19:19:36 1988 - 2271 days ago
>230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
>ftp> cd /pub/PGP/dist/U.S.-only-1213
>250 CWD command successful.
>ftp> ls -alF
>200 PORT command successful.
>150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
>total 4178
>drwxr-xr-x  2 435           512 Jul 18 16:50 ./
>drwx--x---  4 1             512 Aug 18 19:00 ../
>-rw-rw-r--  1 0               0 Jul 18 16:50 .usa-only
>-r--r--r--  1 435        504670 Jun 15 13:31 MacPGP2.6-68000.sea.hqx
>-r--r--r--  1 0          504508 Jun  9 17:16 MacPGP2.6.sea.hqx
>-r--r--r--  1 0          852665 Jun  9 17:08 MacPGP2.6.src.sea.hqx
>-r--r--r--  1 435        262703 May 25 14:21 pgp26.zip
>-r--r--r--  1 435        120320 May 25 14:17 pgp26doc.zip
>-r--r--r--  1 435        790917 May 25 14:06 pgp26src.tar.Z
>-r--r--r--  1 435        513689 May 25 14:06 pgp26src.tar.gz
>-r--r--r--  1 435        627590 May 25 14:14 pgp26src.zip
>226 Transfer complete.
>remote: -alF
>666 bytes received in 0.37 seconds (1.8 Kbytes/s)
>ftp>

As you can see, there is no version other than 2.6 available there.
Whatever it is, it is *not* an official release.

>  Thanks, Dave Hodgins.

Thanks for alerting the 'net.

b&

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