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Subject: Re: edist sites
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Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 17:04:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  8 17:04:51 1987
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>> P.S. I know louie.udel.edu usually has the latest compressed 
>> version, but its version of 18.45.Z seems corrupt (it's smaller than
>> the version on prep and causes uncompress to halt with an error).

The louie version is in fact shorter than the prep version.  They were
built independently, but that should still yield the same file size.
I am not sure why this is.  I just tried copying the file to another
machine, uncompressing it, and running tar on it, and it all worked,
with the last file in the distribution being
dist-18.45/kept_editor.com (1875 bytes).

Make sure when you ftp a compressed file, or a tar file, that you set
the type of transfer to image.  The BSD client will not do this for
you.  The command:  type image 
will do the trick.

I only burden the list with this comment because this little feature
has made several people need to copy the whole file twice.  What
bandwidth we waste on this note, we gain in eliminated faulty
transfers.

The source for compress is stored on louie right along with the
edist.tar file.  It is in tar format, but is not compressed.

anonymous ftp,  any password.  let me know about problems:
Gary Delp