Re: what's difference between from pieces and allinone

["Joumdane Abdelhamid" <joumdane@my-dejanews.com>]

Hi Pang,

	While it seems incomplete, I don't think it is. And even if it's really incomplete, it doesn't affect on developpement. I think The difference in the size is caused by the compression. The more the size is big, the best is the compression. And it more efficient when most files are text files. Don't worry it will work.

Abdelhamid Joumdane 
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:46:07   Pang Kun wrote:
>But when I tried to download them, I found that Allinone is only 14MB while Ns-2.1b5 alone in Pieces is over 14MB. It does mean Allinone is NOT complete. Will this incompleteness affect my developing. This is important for me cause I have to decide what to
>dld.
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>Thanks.
>
>Hi Pang,
>
>        To compile Ns you need to install different packages and their binaries (Tcl/Tk, Otcl, Tclcl). So, the differance between The all in one release and pices is :
>- All in one : You have all packages needed to install NS. But you have also, extra-packages which are optional (nam, cweb, sgb, gt-itm, xgraph).
>
>- From pieces : You have to download each packages needed for NS separately.
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>Well, even if the All-in-one release is a bit large, it is quiete easy to install NS with it.
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>Hope That hepls
>Abdelhamid Joumdane
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>On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:55:57   Pang Kun wrote:
>>Hi,I'm new for NS. NS is large and hard to download.
>>
>>I want to know what's difference between from pieces and allinone.
>>For example,why is the size of "Ns release 2.1b5 (required component)" in
>>allinone different from that of the "Ns-src-2.1b5".
>>
>>If i want to modify it or add my module to it, pieces is prefered, isn't it?
>>
>


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