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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Jerry Kendall wrote:

> Why not. If you build your kernel to support 'gzip' type executables, it 
> will run them... Hence, you still have your 'live CD'.. Maybe I am
> missing something....?

Yes.  You can't compile compressed source code.  Its the source code that 
I don't want to waste precious hard drive space with.

-john

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