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[h-e-w] Re: Emacs 21.1 released - MS Windows distribution available
From: |
Andrew Innes |
Subject: |
[h-e-w] Re: Emacs 21.1 released - MS Windows distribution available |
Date: |
07 Nov 2001 12:37:19 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
On 06 Nov 2001 13:59:13 -0800, Jim Davidson <address@hidden> said:
> Raymond Zeitler address@hidden writes:
>
> > I thought breaking the files into less than 2MB chunks was to help out the
> > people who are stuck using Internet Explorer for their FTP client.
>
> No, the blurb in the README file (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/README)
> says:
>
> "A second distribution in the form of multiple small .zip files is also
> provided, for the benefit of people who have unreliable internet
> connections, or who need to copy the distribution onto floppy disks"
>
> > But I've just looked at the 20.7 files. You're right - they're all less
> > than 1.4MB. The 21.1 "L" files *are* less than 1.4MB, but there's one more
> > than before.
>
> Yup. For some reason the em211_b* filesfor 21.1 were pegged at 2MB, instead
> of 1.4MB like they were in 20.7.
Sorry, I meant to update the README about that.
I had to increase the size of the zip files, because emacs.exe has to
fit in a single zip file, and 1.4MB was not big enough for it. (I'm
using zipsplit to do the splitting here, and that is a limitation it
has.)
So zip files are now merely smaller files, but unfortunately not floppy
sized any more. If this is a real problem for people, I can put
together a solution where emacs.exe is split before zipping, and a batch
file stitches the pieces together again.
AndrewI