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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Holy Moley Batman... I love ccd.  and BTW, if you need 4gb d
To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 22:12:59 -0600 (CST)
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> On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Joe Greco wrote:
> 
> > One thing to check is to see if you have a statically-compiled tar and
> > gzip.  This is only important if you are chroot'ed, but it could be a
> > significant issue, since ls is static by default, while both tar and
> > gzip aren't.

Wait a minute, here, I did NOT write THAT!

>   I used to think that too, but /usr/bin/tar and /usr/bin/gzip are both
> statically linked.  I checked with "file" on a 2.1.5-stable system.

Yes, this is, I believe, true.

... JG