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- From: rgpxs360@glen-ellyn.iit.edu (Peter Stein)
- Subject: Re: v13i299: zip19x32.zoo, Info-ZIP Zip 1.9 - OS/2 2.0 version (part 01/05)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.150950.22010@glen-ellyn.iit.edu>
- Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus
- References: <1992Sep8.043831.8152@uwm.edu> <2AAD239E.5017@deneva.sdd.trw.com> <1992Sep9.204002.16961@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:09:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.204002.16961@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <2AAD239E.5017@deneva.sdd.trw.com> reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes:
- >>Part 3 of Info-ZIP Zip 1.9 never made it this far. Would it be possible to
- >>get it reposted please?
-
- Ditto. Neither of the 2 sites I read news at received it.
-
- >
- >Just ftp the program from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. Everything posted to
- >comp.binaries.os2 is sent there. It's currently in /pub/os2/new.
- >It'll be moved elsewhere RSN. It'll also be mirrored in the
- >"archives" directory tree - where all c.b.o2 submissions end up.
- >
- >--
- > |) David Charlap "LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket,
- > /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu his tongue in your ear, and his faith in your
- > ((|,) patience."
- > ~|~ --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
-
- Not everyone has internet access and obtaining files via mail servers is
- agonizingly slow and error prone. Even though I now have access I am
- constrained to download files from that site at 2400 baud. Furthermore,
- what you're suggesting is terribly inefficient. If a single piece didn't
- make it to a large number of sites would it be better to repost that
- piece or have the subscribers retrieve the file in its entirety ?
-
- It is particularly annoying to spend several days collecting the pieces
- of a multipart submission only to discover that something is missing
- and then having to wait (sometimes in vain) for that piece to arrive.
- Depending on the size of the submission one could also be tying up a
- significant chunk of storage during this wait.
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