On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dos compatible filenames are irrelevant for URL, just give
> the file ANY name you like after downloading the file, it
> is better to have search-friendly URL which contain both
> name and version. Something like krn386x.zip is ridiculous
> for people who want to google for freedos kernel 2042 i386.

I don't think Ibiblio is a strong SEO for FreeDOS topics, despite our
having the FreeDOS files archive hosted there. (Likely this is because
much of Ibiblio [whether or not it is FreeDOS] is just a directory
listing of files, which doesn't rank very highly for SEO.) If you
search for anything "freedos" you'll first get the FreeDOS website,
the FreeDOS wiki, Wikipedia, and then a bunch of article websites like
opensource.com or arstechnica.

> Actually you could use descript.ion or similar metadata to
> have the file name "kernelx.zip" (x = binary, s = source,
> if you like to make that distinction) or "kernel.zip" and
> add the other information to the descript.ion which makes
> it visible for enhanced versions of DIR. Or just use LFN.
>

FYI that Ibiblio is on a web server, and the web server doesn't
understand descript.ion files. It just displays a list of files.

So providing a descript.ion file on the server doesn't actually help
the user, who just wants to download a zip file.

Jim


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