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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: any chance of... Message-ID: <g89r4222.733475149@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <matthew.733339478@femto.engr.mun.ca> <1p84lbINN1j1@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <JKH.93Mar30023319@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Mar30.041706.28158@coe.montana.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 07:05:49 GMT Lines: 23 In <1993Mar30.041706.28158@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <JKH.93Mar30023319@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >> >>>I humbly suggest that if and when the next batch of cpio-format binary >>>distributions are produced that they be produced with ascii headers. >> >>This is a good idea. It shall be done. >> >It is my opinion (and I bounced this off Bill) that we use ....... >(does he dare say it.....) TAR for the next distribution. Also, what about using gzip instead od compress. Yes I know gzip is more than 2x the size of compress, but it may well work to squeeze more stuff onto the distribution floppy. Geoff. -- ============================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za=============================== Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, |#define DISCLAIMER These are my Computer Science Department, | ramblings, not the Rhodes University, RSA. | University's