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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:53:55 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Cc:        jerry@border.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD?
Message-ID:  <199602271753.SAA03920@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227103120.250J-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Feb 27, 96 10:33:34 am

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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.

A call for compressed file systems...

	Luigi
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email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
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