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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:03:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Kai Voigt <k@123.org>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, FreeBSD-CURRENT <FreeBSD-CURRENT@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why not gzip iso images?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150902430.75304-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000315055316.D14789@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> I feel pretty confident assuming that most people that burn ISOs probably
> keep enough disk space free to hold one and not much more, going from
> a requirement of ~650MB to ~1.2GB wouldn't be a smart move imo.

fetch -o - ftp://path/to/iso.gz | gunzip -c - > /path/to/image.iso

Kris

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