Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 09:34 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
The implication might be that the best way is not to ship the dynamic
book files at all, and just assume they are in the user's home
directory or subdirectory thereof and document where to get them.
That's all well and good if you've got a nice network connection but is
going to suck if you have to download 30MB over a modem having gone to
the trouble of obtaining CDs or don't have net access at all at the
right time. There are still 9600 baud modems in production and places
where it's hard to obtain net access at all.
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