On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:09:01PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > That would not be a simple solution. There are more packaging
> > problems with this than you've probably ever dealt with since we deal
> > with CD sets in terms of tens-of-thousands quantities.
> >
> > I will continue to explore going to a 6 CD set, but that also means
> > more work for me on every release so I'm in no particular hurry. :)
>
> How about using 80-minute/700MB discs? It would only let you squeeze
> in another 50MB/disc, but that would mean an extra 200MB for the 4-CD
> set. Apparently this is what Microsoft and many others have been
> doing for a while now.
>
This may be a wee bit obvious, but how about compressing everything
on all 4 CD's--except perhaps the *.TXT files or recompressing
everything with bzip2?
Seems to me that there's a more reasonable solution than going to
5 or 6 disks...
gary
>
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