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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 13:42:23 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
cc: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>,
djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: perl for djgpp
In-Reply-To: <m0ww5tC-000S1dC@inti.edu.ar>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970807134159.8454D-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> In my experience if you put 2 files called  prg1.zip and prg2.zip
> the user will download both thinking that it's just one big splitted
> to make more easy the download.

And what's wrong with that?  The package will work, won't it?

Splitting a package is not meant to make life easier for those who
don't read the docs.  It's for those who *do* read it and are short on
disk space.

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