Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!osu-eddie!karl
From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: comparison shopping
Message-ID: <2633@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 07:30:56 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.2633
Posted: Sat Nov 22 07:30:56 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Nov-86 04:20:22 EST
References: <14582@kestrel.ARPA> <7888@lll-crg.aRpA>
Organization: OSU
Lines: 18

bandy@lll-crg.UUCP writes:
>And that they don't
>provide a compress'ed version of the distribution on prep for people
>to ftp off, thus doubling the amount of network traffic out of
>mit-prep ["But you could login to prep and fix it yourself!"
>However, most people don't know that and clog the gateways.]..

False.  The normal file people pick up for distribution is
edist.tar-mm.nn.Z, i.e., it's a compressed version.  The uncompressed
version is there, too, but I doubt anybody bothers when the .Z version
is there.

Lately, it's been available as a file split into 100,000 byte chunks,
so you don't have to keep retrying from ground zero every time the
arpanet chokes with timeouts, "network is unreachable," or "connection
reset by peer."  Rather nice.
-- 
Karl Kleinpaste