In spite of or because of being new to NetBSD, I think I understand the 
difference, but it is a little wicked that:

/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6 = NetBSD 1.6 release &
/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-1-6 = netbsd-1-6 branch

I was thinking Daniel was after the NetBSD 1.6 release.

Sorry,
Mark

--On Monday, 2002 October 14 13:44 -0400 gabriel rosenkoetter 
<gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:30:11AM -0600, Mark Derbyshire wrote:
>> What about:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/source/xsrc.tgz
>>
>> Downloaded it and it worked fine for me a few days ago.
>
> Sure, but that's the NetBSD 1.6 release, not what lives under the
> netbsd-1-6 branch. It probably doesn't matter, functionally, but
> they aren't the same thing.

--On Monday, 2002 October 14 11:22 -0400 gabriel rosenkoetter 
<gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:50:04AM -0400, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
>> I am downloading the sources for 1.6 release, & I notice that, in
>> addition to there being more of them, there don't seem to be any for
>> xwindows. Has xwindows migrated to the packages?
>
> You mean under /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-1-6?