On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Phil Edwards wrote:
>
> > Not sure if this comes under the "Stupid Questions" heading or not, but is
> > there any reason why the .iso images on the various ftp mirrors can't be
> > compressed to make for a (slightly) quicker download?
> >
>
> Yes they generaly get just get bigger, as all the rpms are already as
> compressed as they are going to get. Sense the 30 or so Mb of doc's were
> moved theres even less point.
>
>
Just for giggles I thought I'd give this a shot since I've got tons of
disk space. I gzipped a copy of mandrake61-1.iso that was laying around
my ftp server hard drive. It gzipped okay; however, gunzipping it caused
a "format violated" error and wouldn't decompress it.
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