Nathan Straz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:15:26PM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> > Being that the ISO images are rather large, it might be nice to have a
> > duplicate of each current ISO available that is the gzip version.
>
> Here's an old FTP trick, append a .gz to any filename on an FTP site and
> the FTP server will gzip it for you.
>
Good idea (I'll check to make sure oss is configed to do this)
but I doubt this will save space,
every file on the iso is already compressed.
So about the only space to be gained would be in
the cd9660 file system, which I very small to start with.
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