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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:29:35 +1000 (EST)
From:      andrew@ugh.net.au
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why not gzip iso images?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003160027420.47676-100000@beebite.ugh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000315063703.H14789@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Seriously though, there's no reason not to have the ISOs up in
> compressed format though.  I guess given a choice between _only_
> compressed or _only_ uncompressed I think uncompressed is better,
> but if the space is available it would be nice to see compressed
> images available.

How many FTP servers support on the fly gzipping and
ungzipping? mirror.aarnet.edu.au does...perhaps a little note could be
placed in .message to remind people to try it...

Andrew (who is on 33.6 and dosnt even contemplate downloading ISO images)



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