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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Download question
Date: 31 Dec 1995 10:45:30 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Alan Bawden <alan@lcs.mit.edu> writes:

> And after he does that he'll still be mostly in the dark
> about what many of those files are.  For example, in XF86312
> the files XF86-co.tgz and XF86-xc.tgz are each over 30 megabytes,
> but nothing in the instructions on the boot floppy will
> specifically mention those files by name, so there's no way to
> be certain what the consequences are of not including them.

Agreed.  There used to be a README file for XFree86 previously,
eplaining the file naming (which is rather ugly in order to fit into
braindead 8+3 rules).  I'm not on-line now, so i cannot check whether
this file is missing now.

The /xperimnt and /commerce are large single .tgz files for some
reasons unknown to me.  Only Jordan could shed a light on this. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)