how about a real unstable?

-date our main packages will be. Andrew Lenharth Remember, never ask a geek "why"; just nod your head and back away slowly... -- Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Win 98 source code? Eight mon

Re: Bochs / VGA-Bios license question / freebios anyone?

I originally ITPed bochs. Unfortunately it would have to go in non-free. the VGA-BIOS included is licensed only for use and distribution with bochs. It therefor cannot be seperated into a seperate package from bochs (and if bochs is packaged, it should ge removed from the source archive. Andrew

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

e Data Compression Book" by Nelson (?) for a fairly good overview of how these work. What is better and easier is to ensure that the compression is deturministic (gzip by default is not, bzip2 seems to be), so that rsync can decompress, rsync, compress, and get the exact file back on the other side. Andrew Lenharth

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

han "gzip foo" would. I really suggets you investigate LZW based algorithms. You would find they do not behave as you think. Only incredibly simple static compression algorithms have the properties you desire. Andrew Lenharth