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Subject: isode distribution format
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Date: 12 Mar 91 16:35:31 GMT
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I'd like to make a plea for a small reorganization of the ISODE
distribution format. Specifically, that the compressed tar file be
split into two smaller files - one containing the very large ./doc
directory tree, and the other containing the software itself.  For
some reason, I perpetually have difficulties downloading files from
uu.psi.com (am I the only one ?) and it is very frustrating to have the
ftp connection go away when the transfer is 80% complete (as just
happened ... :=( ). And for a maintenance release like 6.8, I'm not
interested in getting the existing documentation (which I already have)
anyway. (Not to mention local savings in disk space.. ) 

Comments ?

- Simon
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