discuss: Bundled HOWTOs and Mini-HOWTOs in .bz2 format
Subject:
Re: Bundled HOWTOs and Mini-HOWTOs in .bz2 format
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
12 Aug 2002 13:43:46 -0000
Message-Id: <10208120938.ZM19069@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Aug 3, 7:05pm, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> Subject: Bundled HOWTOs and Mini-HOWTOs in .bz2 format
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering, doesn't LDP distribute the full collection
> of HOWTOs and Mini-HOWTOs in .tar.bz2 format? There would be lot
> of saving if we do so.
>
> 1368111 -> Linux-mini-html-single-HOWTOs.tar.gz
> 1081804 -> Linux-mini-html-single-HOWTOs.tar.bz2
>
> 7211092 -> Linux-html-single-HOWTOs.tar.gz
> 5785628 -> Linux-html-single-HOWTOs.tar.bz2
>
> Now that is considerable ... isn't it? I'm sure these tar-balls
> are generated using some scripts so would it be difficult to do
> this bzip2 thing for all the bundled docs that are on the site?
I can set that up. Thanks for the suggestion.
regards,
Ferg
