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To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree
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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Date: 23 Apr 2002 11:07:28 -0400
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>>>>> "Larry" == Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:

Larry> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:10:28AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>  One thing that really irritates me about the bkbits.com page
>> (unless I missed figuring out how to so this) is that you can't
>> seem to be able to pull down the plain text version of a source
>> file. The only thing it will give you is a vile HTML'ified version
>> which adds about 15 chars/line with naming and which has all tab's
>> converted into spaces.
>> 
>> Any chance you'd add this?

Larry> Sure, as soon as we find a mirror for bkbits.net, having a
Larry> plain text interface to the files/patches, is a fine idea.
Larry> Until then, I need to hoard my bandwidth.  I'm working on the
Larry> mirror problem.

My suggestion is actually a bandwidth saver, browsing it and searching
for the text file made me download a lot of HTML I would never have
downloaded.

And just the spaces replaced with the original tabs would be a big
save ;-)

Jes
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