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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!batcomputer!db.TC.Cornell.EDU!mdw
  3. From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
  4. Subject: Re: Zip for distributions?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec16.065904.5733@tc.cornell.edu>
  6. Followup-To: poster
  7. Sender: news@tc.cornell.edu
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: db.tc.cornell.edu
  9. Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
  10. References: <1992Dec15.194751.5379@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1gm5dvINNaq8@life.ai.mit.edu> <BzC4uE.7xr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
  11. Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 06:59:04 GMT
  12. Lines: 16
  13.  
  14. In article <BzC4uE.7xr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
  15. mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
  16. >Convince me that reducing the amount of cruft I need to download and
  17. >transfer on *floppy disks* to bring a machine up isn't worthwhile.  Or
  18. >at least try.
  19.  
  20. Why don't you download the files to your own system, uncompress/untar
  21. them, and re-zip them yourself to put onto floppies?
  22.  
  23. If you don't like the way the current FTP sites are set up, make your
  24. own available. End of discussion. Followups to me.
  25.  
  26. mdw
  27. -- 
  28. Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
  29.   "It's a Katana, ya Midwestern Computer Geek." --Tom Payne
  30.