[tex-live] too many files

[Martin Schroeder]

On 2002-02-26 10:41:31 +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:34:09AM +0100, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>  
> > Some stupid idea : what about hacking kpathsea to read .gz files ?
>  
> I doubt it would help that much, to be honest.

If on-the-fly decompression could be used for fonts (i.e. pfbs)
and the documentation, we would gain the compression of up to 450
MB, i.e. more than 50% of the cd. Seems worth at least a try.

Best regards
    Martin
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