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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:23:18 +0000
From: J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To: John Purser <johnmpurser@home.com>
Cc: "'Doug Barton'" <Doug@gorean.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: going from 4.0 -> 3.4
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:00:54AM -0800, John Purser wrote:
> If there's not too much to save then I've got a temp solution.  Zip the
> files into one file, set up a temporary secondary e-mail account, e-mail the
> files from your primary to the secondary account (or vice versa) then after
> you've made you're changes check your mail and download the saved files.
> You might want to do a dry run to be sure both mail services handle an
> attachment as large as you need.  It might be a little simpler (and more
> reliable) than backing it all up to multiple floppies.

I was thinking of something similar.  But if i go through my home
directory and weed out the netscape cache files and general bloat, i
may be able to whittle it down.  Of course, i still have all those
Windowmaker themes...  ;-)
Most of what i have should compress well.


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