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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: any chance of...
Message-ID: <1993Mar30.094324.27549@gmd.de>
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References: <matthew.733339478@femto.engr.mun.ca> <1p84lbINN1j1@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <JKH.93Mar30023319@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Mar30.041706.28158@coe.montana.edu> <g89r4222.733475149@kudu>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 09:43:24 GMT
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In article <g89r4222.733475149@kudu>, g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
|> In <1993Mar30.041706.28158@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
|>
[...]
|> >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.
This is more interesting for the bin* and src* distributions.
bin01dist, collected with tar and packed with gzip and splitted
into 240K parts now has 41 parts (original code, not with shared libs or
gcc233), src01dist has 34 parts (fully patched 0.2.2, however some
cleanups in the uucp source directory made); etc01dist wasn't worth
for repacking (out-of-date).
Maybe it is possible to strip off parts of gzip to make a gzip-lite.
Holger
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