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[h-e-w] Re: Emacs 21.1 released - MS Windows distribution available


From: Andrew Innes
Subject: [h-e-w] Re: Emacs 21.1 released - MS Windows distribution available
Date: 20 Dec 2001 18:34:52 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

Just a quick follow up on the issue of the .zip files being too big to
fit on floppies now - has this been a significant problem for anyone?

Thanks,
AndrewI

On 07 Nov 2001 12:37:19 +0000, Andrew Innes <address@hidden> said:

> On 06 Nov 2001 13:59:13 -0800, Jim Davidson <address@hidden> said:
> 
> > Raymond Zeitler address@hidden writes:
> > 
> > > I thought breaking the files into less than 2MB chunks was to help out the
> > > people who are stuck using Internet Explorer for their FTP client.  
> > 
> > No, the blurb in the README file 
> > (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/README)
> > says:
> > 
> >  "A second distribution in the form of multiple small .zip files is also
> >   provided, for the benefit of people who have unreliable internet
> >   connections, or who need to copy the distribution onto floppy disks"
> > 
> > > But I've just looked at the 20.7 files.  You're right - they're all less
> > > than 1.4MB.  The 21.1 "L" files *are* less than 1.4MB, but there's one 
> > > more
> > > than before.
> > 
> > Yup.  For some reason the em211_b* filesfor 21.1 were pegged at 2MB, instead
> > of 1.4MB like they were in 20.7.
> 
> Sorry, I meant to update the README about that.
> 
> I had to increase the size of the zip files, because emacs.exe has to
> fit in a single zip file, and 1.4MB was not big enough for it.  (I'm
> using zipsplit to do the splitting here, and that is a limitation it
> has.)
> 
> So zip files are now merely smaller files, but unfortunately not floppy
> sized any more.  If this is a real problem for people, I can put
> together a solution where emacs.exe is split before zipping, and a batch
> file stitches the pieces together again.
> 
> AndrewI



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