[tex-live] too many files

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:08:49 +0000


On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:33:30AM +0100, Martin Schroeder wrote:
> 
> 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.

its a high price to pay. I seriously doubt you'd save as much as 450 mbytes,
and it cuts out many people from casually browsing the docs.

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