To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: A few FS notions)
Message-ID:	<19970506.164549.5143.0.chambersb@juno.com>
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From:	chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date:	Tue, 06 May 1997 19:38:29 EDT

On Mon, 5 May 1997 22:11:39 -0400 (EDT) "Mike A. Harris"
<mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca> writes:
>On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
>
>Also, the binary dists should NOT come with source right now
>IMHO, and even later on, separate source distribs make more
>sense.
>
>However one shouldn't need to download 30M of source code just to
>get the source for SUBST either.  I think that it should be
>broken down into several pieces such as a BASE source distrib
>including the kernel, as well as COMMAND.COM, and the headers for
>EVERYTHING, then one only need download the "ODfileutils" source,
>or the "OD diskutils" source, or the "driver source", etc...

It's simple: Just have two versions of each file, one ending in s.zip and
the other in b.zip

Do this for every file, and no problem :)



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