Re: Why not gzip iso images?

[Don Lewis]

On Mar 15,  9:03am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
} Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images?
} On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
} 
} > I feel pretty confident assuming that most people that burn ISOs probably
} > keep enough disk space free to hold one and not much more, going from
} > a requirement of ~650MB to ~1.2GB wouldn't be a smart move imo.
} 
} fetch -o - ftp://path/to/iso.gz | gunzip -c - > /path/to/image.iso

This doesn't allow you to restart a failed transfer, which you might
want to be able to do if it takes two or three days to transfer the
entire file.


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