CTAN update: ctantools
Date: September 14, 2009 9:42:07 AM CEST
This update should be wt your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ctan.tools
Version number: 1.5.1
Author's name: Anh K. Huynh
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: A jiffy to search CTAN file list.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
News in this version * auto. select CTAN mirror * provide package/file date and size * bugs fixed: lzma problem, wrapped FILES.byname
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ctantools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctantools (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
News in this version * auto. select CTAN mirror * provide package/file date and size * bugs fixed: lzma problem, wrapped FILES.byname
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ctantools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctantools (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
CTAN tools – A jiffy to search CTAN file list
The Unix-shell script ‘ctan’ provides facilities for extracting and using information from the CTAN file list; the facilities include retrieving files. To do this, it uses various common utilities, including wget and lynx.
| Package | CTAN tools |
| Version | 1.5.2 |
| Maintainer | Ky-Anh Huynh |