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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:52:30 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Compress info and man pages ?
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Fr�d�ric schrieb:

> Now that the documentation is moving to /usr/share, are there
> any plans to compress the info and man pages like in cygwin-doc
> ?

> Since gzip is in Base I suppose that wouldn't break anything.

> It may save considerable disk space. Does anyone with a full
> install know how much ?

You would save about 20-30MB probably.  I don't regard this as
considerable.


Gerrit
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