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Date:	Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:47:29 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Installation Routine
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Hi Ron,

Ron Parker wrote:
> As I sit here waiting for the preview to download so I can work on an
> installer, I find myself wondering. Is there any chance of using bzip2
> in place of gzip? It would reduce the download size and the resulting
> load on sourceware.cygnus.com which seems to be averaging about 8kB/s
> across my cable modem.

I wouldn't do that. As it is mentioned often in the cygwin base
mailing list, Netscape Navigator is able to mess up bzip2ed files
when downloading. I fear the mail traffic followup...

> [...]
> If no one objects too loudly I will be making posts as I update it. I am
> hoping to have something suitable in time for the net release.

:-)

Corinna

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