On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:14:37AM -0500, Matt Heckaman wrote:
> It's been my experience that gzipping an ISO (or other compression tools)
> do not make enough different to justify the time it takes to both compress
> and uncompress these things. For example, the time needed to un-gzip the
> ISO could be longer than the time it would take to download the space that
> was saved by it.
Alas, that is just not true for many of us who are in bandwidth-poor
countries. Over here, it can take 3 to BIGNUM hours to download an ISO
image (there aren't any up-to-date local mirrors), depending on time of
day and the phase of the moon. I think compression would definitely help.
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