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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
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Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] J?rn Engel wrote:

> That shouldn't matter, most of the times. If you want to build the
> code, you have to [bg]unzip anyway, so there is no extra cost.
> And I have a hard time to think of a real-world application where you
> don't want to unpack but need to verify the signature.

My real world includes downloading a bunch of files and burning a CD to
move them to a test environment which is completely private and has no
external connections of any kind. I don't do all files that way, of
course, but that is the way at least half of the 2.5 kernels I've used
were moved to a machine which was non-production.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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