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Re: ftp and filesize shenanigans



On Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:34:08 BST, Lloyd Wood wrote: 
>On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Sean Murphy wrote:
>...
>> and found that the ns-src-2.1b5.tar.gz file is enormous. It's almost
>> as big as the allinone files.
>
>15050579 Mar 17 01:12 ns-src-2.1b5.tar.gz
>
>14.4Mb! It's 14.4Mb! Look at the size of that thing!  Even ns-current
>with nsdoc is only 11Mb. The old wireless version in the Berkeley http
>server (which we don't mirror) seems similarly afflicted - 15.3Mb, yet
>the new version is 8Mb.

The 2.1b5 release included some really big traces that we've since
figured out how to handle better.

   -John Heidemann