Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: MSDOS uploads to SIMTEL20 for month of June 1990 Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 90 09:31:07 GMT References: <13296@smoke.BRL.MIL> Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 23 w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: > It has ALWAYS been possible. SIMIBM.IDX is inside SIMIBM.ARC. Before > someone says "I don't need all the other files in that ARC", if we > deleted them all it would only save 30K in the size of the ARC. There > are many people who need those information files and programs to print > the index. They would complain is the files were NOT included. It's > not worth getting upset about it for only 30K. I'm certainly not upset, Keith... but in the interest of conserving net bandwidth, I'd like to be able to save that 30k. (it's closer to 45k when you figure in the expansion of uuencoding) I also never suggested deleting the additional support files from SIMIBM.ARC, but instead, making SIMIBM.IDX available _seperately_ in a compressed form. You know the SIMTEL user better than I, though. If it would cause too much hassle, I can always carry on as I have thus far: pulling SIMIBM.ARC down and discarding the other files. -- Roy M. Silvernail | 'I don't see why you people | Opinions found now available at: | seem to think this is magic... | herein are mine, cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu | Its just this little chromium | but you can rent (cyberspace... be here!)| switch here...[click]' | them.