> > Here from Brazil, the connection speed to ftp.debian.org is below > > 0.4 kbps. And the worst is that the other mirrors I tried, > > like farofa.ime.usp.br (wich is about 10 km from here) are > > more slow (!). > > Is that different from linux.if.usp.br /debian ? > The administrator there is [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
I don't know. I'll see. > > So, I think that a good thing would be a bin-diff distribution. > > Unfortunately this is not as well-bounded a problem as a text diff. > The reason is that when a program is re-linked, adding a single > instruction or a byte of data may change a large number of address > references in the program. You might use "cmp -l" between two versions > of the same program to see how much of a problem this is. Yes. After reading your reply, I tried do to a bin-diff betwen the two versions of netscape (3.0 and 3.01) with the BinDiff utility (from Dr. Dobb's Journal, May/1995), and the resulting file was about 2 kb smaller than the originals!!! Not a good idea, I think :-) Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
