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- From: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
- Subject: Re: Zip for distributions?
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- Sender: randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
- Reply-To: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
- Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- References: <1gku45INN8qo@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Dec15.194751.5379@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1gm5dvINNaq8@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:37:12 GMT
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- mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
- >jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
-
- >Convince me that reducing the amount of cruft I need to download and
- >transfer on *floppy disks* to bring a machine up isn't worthwhile. Or
- >at least try.
-
- the FTP site maintainers have said time and again that they will *NOT*
- use zip or lha or zoo or arj. They have said that they will deal only
- with tar.Z files.
-
- Do as you wish if you want to setup a distribution, perhaps they'll even
- carry the distribution in zip format, but for general packages they have
- aleady decided the matter... to the point of unzipping/arjing/zooing/etc
- and tar.Z themselves if need be.
-
- --
- Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (ASCII mail) THIS IS _NOT_ CCSO'S OPINION!!!
- jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail) If It were, It would've had a
- wi.6580@n7kbt.rain.com (anon) more important name on it. =)
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