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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:57:54 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Eric Sandall <eric@sandall.us>,
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Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
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On Tue, 25 March 2003 10:59:54 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] J?rn Engel wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Real world always wins over imagination. I'll shut up now. :)

J?rn

-- 
When in doubt, use brute force.
-- Ken Thompson
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