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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:31:54 -0500
From: Glenn Spell <glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us>
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Subject: Re: Installation Routine
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In-Reply-To: <200002252256.RAA22139@envy.delorie.com>; from "DJ Delorie" on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:56PM
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On 25 Feb 2000 around  5:56PM (-0500) DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> > Would you mind sending email to "kingdon AT redhat DOT com" instead?  He's
> > the new webmaster, apparently (things are kind of in flux).
> 
> The correct address for sourceware server issues is:
> 
> 	sourcemaster AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com

Noted. I just sent sourcemaster a copy of the email I sent Jason.

> In my case, where I'm creating tarballs all the time, the extra CPU
> needed to build them is annoying, but I can be convinced to switch for
> the official distributions.
> 
> Plus, you can't use "tar xvfz ..." to extract them :-(

Of course not. You use "tar xvfy ..." instead :-)

That is... after applying the following tar-1.13 patch.

<ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/contrib/gnutarpatch.txt>

Can this be applied to the source for the new net release?

-glenn

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