From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 13 20:17:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B966437B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5741D43EB7 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:17:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0015.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.15] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 180vjq-0007hQ-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:17:51 -0700 Message-ID: <3DAA3716.F4E7691@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:16:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Old port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol"__sF") References: <3DA9D95D.C1319A72@mindspring.com> <20021013205915.GK10829@hades.hell.gr> <3DA9EA62.D337E8A0@mindspring.com> <20021014114320A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Makoto Matsushita wrote: > tlambert2> That's 3.4 hours saved on a 28.8K modem download time, > tlambert2> overall... a 14% reduction in size. > > The percentage doesn't matter. If ISO image is compressed, user who > downloads the image may de-compress that image to burn (I don't know > any about the burner softwares which support compressed ISO image). > What's happen if there is no space to make de-compressed image on a HDD? fetch -o - URL | gunzip > unzipped_image or ftp> get filename |"gunzip > unzipped_image" > Also, the image size is still over 200MB; it is too large to fetch via > 28.8k link IMHO (saving 3.4hours doesn't help either). There are lots > of broadband connection services we can temporary buy (at airport, > starbucks, etc), so why not use it for large file downloads :-) I'm not really worried about the people who have access to such links, or who "wouldn't do it anyway"; they aren't the target market -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message