From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 21 13:37:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05392 for current-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 13:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05373 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 13:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA26343 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:36:51 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA00277 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 22:36:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA14717 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:19:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604211819.UAA14717@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Another 2.2-SNAP soon, folks? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 20:19:18 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604211640.JAA25438@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Apr 21, 96 09:40:10 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Polstra wrote: > I would very much like to see gzipped executables working again. > Without them, you can't use the fixit disk. As a short-term solution, i think we could turn off gzipping. The stuff should fit (though it will become tight then). This would at least make the fixit floppy usable at all. It has the additional advantage that the fixit floppy would become much faster then (in particular, consider the pagein times from a floppy). -- 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. ;-)