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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:02:16 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        SmirnovAV <SmirnovAV@kolatom.murmansk.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20011101160216.C30776@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <8609.011101@kolatom.murmansk.ru>
References:  <8609.011101@kolatom.murmansk.ru>

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:38:06PM +0300, SmirnovAV wrote:
> Hi !
> 
>  It's very difficult to download cd image with FreeBSD.
>  ~650M ! Uffff...
>  
>  Maybe archived (gzipped for example)iso-images will be more easy
>  downloadable from your site ?

Since most of the files on the CD are already compressed compressing
the iso-image further would only decrease its size by a few percent or
so.  That is not probably not worth the time and memory needed to
compress/uncompress it.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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