From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Newsgroups: net.news.b Title: Re: Distributing updates Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2358 Posted: Tue Jun 15 10:47:17 1982 Received: Thu Jun 17 04:02:23 1982 References: unc.3545 The total 2.7 distribution is 315K, compared to 114K for the two updates. If only the diff -e were posted, it would be considerably smaller yet. (I really wonder if people are willing to go through those diff -c's by hand - it seems like a LOT of work to me.) There are always copies of the current distribution on ucbvax, harpo, and decvax in ~uucp/news.tar. (cbosg and cbosgd often have them but are not promised.) Probably some other sites should have current copies in a public place, such as src-unix (for the arpanet), zehntel (for the Silicon Valley part of the net) and so on. BTL sites should get the distribution from harpo. It might be possible to post changed files in their entirety to net.sources, if people really want that. But it would be fairly big. An alternative might be to post diffs for man, doc, and misc, but entire src files. Mark