On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 09:36:31AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > What they download and what they install are two different things. He said > "distributed in the original archive format" which was a .zip/.exe. If > they download a .deb, it isn't the original archive is it?
When you download a .zip, it's not transferred unchanged. There are TCP/IP headers added to each packet. The file transfer protocol (FTP, HTTP, etc) adds stuff to it. .deb simply adds stuff as well. How's that different? -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the Air Capital Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org
