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

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

Yes, I think it'd be nice if it were able to fit into floppies too.
There are still
people without a net connection and getting the dist. on floppies
would be the
closest thing to heaven for them. & it's really important for my
evangilical sermons
to heathans to convert to emacs. :-)
regards,
Sivaram

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Innes <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 12:04 AM
Subject: [h-e-w] Re: Emacs 21.1 released - MS Windows distribution
available


> 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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