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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: .o files left in NetBSD-0.8, and some more Message-ID: <1993Apr20.132354.15721@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: CS References: <1993Apr20.093746.23514@gmd.de> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 13:23:54 GMT Lines: 24 In article <1993Apr20.093746.23514@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: >A pointer to a complete gzip release would be sufficient, and could reduce >the distribution sizes. (This stripping was already done with gcc as well). > >Maybe I am wrong, but usr/src/usr.bin/tar does not look like the recent >gnu release, which allows unpacking of gzip files, which would be an improvement. > gzip1.07 and tar1.11.2 are available for anon. ftp from bsd.coe.montana.edu:/pub/*. Both of these packages use Berkeley make, and as such drop right in, and can either be added to the /usr/src/usr.bin in the case of gzip, or can replace the current version in the case of tar. Thanks go to Gary Browning who did the initial work on gzip. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom