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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rc here docs
Date: Mon,  1 Sep 2003 08:36:22 +0000
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boyd, rounin wrote:
> i hate all that tar.gz nonsense; if you have to compress it, well it's too big.

A lot of software systems worth going to the trouble of porting
are inherently pretty large, and the compression helps a lot for
folks who are stuck with dial-up modem access.