Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/07/08:30:53
Hans wrote:
> The primary reason is probably their sheer size. As DJ's link to the
> Internet is rather narrow (a modem line), he probably cannot seriously
> offer download of this large database (I used to collect the DJGPP
> mailing list myself before it ever became a newsgroup, and that
> amounted to several megabytes of compressed stuff per year) from his
> server.
Hi Hans,
I don't say that these archives must be in the djgpp page, they could be
in the djgpp distribution files, in the directory v2misc, or in a new
directory v2mail. The mail archives usually can be compressed in a
factor or 4-5, the stuff of a month is around 3 Mb in size, so compressed
it will be 700 Kb more or less, 700*12=8400 Kb per year, i think it's not
so much disk space, and this is a very very very good and useful material.
I would like Dj says what he thinks about this.
Javier Bardal Prieto e-mail: u0204956 AT golum DOT inforg DOT uniovi DOT es
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