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Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 16:05:05 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setup.bz2
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On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 02:53:15AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>setup.exe (HEAD) will now grab setup.bz2 in preference to setup.ini,
>with a fallback to setup.ini. I've done this to aid modem users, and
>multi-site users.
>
>I compressed a test copy to the cygwin ftp site (I hope that was an ok
>thing to do Chris), and it should it mirrors soon. The savings are quite
>reasonable: 
>>From 98939 to 27761 bytes in length...
>
>Chris, any chance to make upset create setup.bz2 on the fly?

No time soon.

cgf