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From: liberte@uiucdcsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 18.32
Message-ID: <165400001@uiucdcsb>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 01:31:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 11 01:31:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!liberte    Dec 11 00:31:00 1986


I sure appreciated whoever did the split of the 18.31 version.
I *almost* succeeded in getting the latest version before it
became out-of-date.  It seems to be almost impossible for anyone
to get the whole thing in one ftp copy.  I have certainly wasted
lots of resources trying.  Something better is required.

If someone would take charge of splitting the latest version
in addition to compressing it that would be great.  I understand that
Stallman is not interested in this extra task.  Any volunteers?

While you're at it, it would help to know the compression factor and
the check sum of each split file.  I found that ftp may not catch all
transmission errors and when uncompress complains, it is difficult to
tell which split file is in error.  Furthermore, uncompress doesn't
even catch some errors and tar eventually complains - it's been
frustrating, let me tell you.


Dan LaLiberte
liberte@b.cs.uiuc.edu
liberte@uiuc.csnet
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