Re: Suggestion
> > Here from Brazil, the connection speed to ftp.debian.org is below
> > 0.4 kbps. And the worst is that the other mirrors I tried,
> > like farofa.ime.usp.br (wich is about 10 km from here) are
> > more slow (!).
>
> Is that different from linux.if.usp.br /debian ?
> The administrator there is afmoraes@if.usp.br .
I don't know. I'll see.
> > So, I think that a good thing would be a bin-diff distribution.
>
> Unfortunately this is not as well-bounded a problem as a text diff.
> The reason is that when a program is re-linked, adding a single
> instruction or a byte of data may change a large number of address
> references in the program. You might use "cmp -l" between two versions
> of the same program to see how much of a problem this is.
Yes. After reading your reply, I tried do to a bin-diff betwen
the two versions of netscape (3.0 and 3.01) with the BinDiff
utility (from Dr. Dobb's Journal, May/1995), and the resulting
file was about 2 kb smaller than the originals!!! Not a good
idea, I think :-)
Alexander Gieg
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