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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 20:20:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Michael Schuster <SCHUSTER AT merlin DOT e-technik DOT uni-erlangen DOT de>
Cc: mewesolo AT freenet DOT calgary DOT ab DOT ca, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: tar for DOS

>  * This message contains the file 'gzip.exe', which has been
>  * uuencoded. If you are using Pegasus Mail, then you can use
>  * the browser's eXtract function to lift the original contents
>  * out to a file, otherwise you will have to extract the message
>  * and uudecode it manually.

Why should you post to the entire newsgroup a file which can be easily
gotten by anonymous ftp from the DJGPP archives (get the file
gzpNNNbn.zip, where NNN is the version number)?  Isn't this a waste of net
bandwidth? 

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