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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:16:38 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Old port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol"__sF")
Message-ID:  <3DAA3716.F4E7691@mindspring.com>
References:  <3DA9D95D.C1319A72@mindspring.com> <20021013205915.GK10829@hades.hell.gr> <3DA9EA62.D337E8A0@mindspring.com> <20021014114320A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> tlambert2> That's 3.4 hours saved on a 28.8K modem download time,
> tlambert2> overall...  a 14% reduction in size.
> 
> The percentage doesn't matter.  If ISO image is compressed, user who
> downloads the image may de-compress that image to burn (I don't know
> any about the burner softwares which support compressed ISO image).
> What's happen if there is no space to make de-compressed image on a HDD?

	fetch -o - URL | gunzip > unzipped_image

or
	ftp> get filename |"gunzip > unzipped_image"


> Also, the image size is still over 200MB; it is too large to fetch via
> 28.8k link IMHO (saving 3.4hours doesn't help either).  There are lots
> of broadband connection services we can temporary buy (at airport,
> starbucks, etc), so why not use it for large file downloads :-)

I'm not really worried about the people who have access to such
links, or who "wouldn't do it anyway"; they aren't the target
market

-- Terry

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