On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > I just did a "du -s /usr/doc" on my 386DX/33 (8MB RAM, 2-200MB HD) - and > it only has 11MB of docs installed. So uncompressing those isn't going > to kill me - I'm sure most other people using old hardware have similar > usage. > > Who objects?
I do. Text often gets up to a 10-1 compression ratio. It may be 11M all compressed, but if it's 100M uncompressed then you're going to annoy a lot of people. -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
