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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 02:32:19 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 18 Jan 1995 07:56:25 GMT
From: Will Mengarini <mengarini@delphi.com>
Message-Id: <3fihj9$a2v@news.halcyon.com>
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <3eo07m$k8h@edge.ercnet.com>, <3evg4i$jhb@news.halcyon.com>, <1995Jan15.214924.24623@njitgw.njit.edu>
Subject: Re: Some Questions
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
>>Blake McBride <blake@edge.ercnet.com> writes:
>>
>>>I use MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, and Linux on a daily basis.
>>>I, therefore, would like to have source for all those environments,
>>>however, I don't want to download and keep 4 or more copies of
>>>virtually the same files. Is there a _single_ .tar.gz file I
>>>can download which containes the entire source tree for all supported
>>>platforms? If not can I convince someone to produce such an animal?
axd0822@hertz.njit.edu (Adam DePrince) writes:
>Get all of the source images. Store all but one as a difference from
>the remaining one. This should get you the space savings you need.
It would be astonishing to discover that the StringMages of the Icon Project
actually maintain their source trees separately, & unless they do, creating
our own unified trees by hand should be unnecessary.