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Re: [ANNOUNCE] experiemental dpkg available



On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

> download time is usually 10x longer than bunip2ing of dowloaded file and
> many pays for this time so it will be much cheaper and faster on slow
> connections if bz2 is used for the reasonable amount of packages (at
> least bigger ones) 

Only if you are connecting through a straw or are not using a CD. Around
here the time to download is <<< time to install even with gzip!

Jason


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