At 12:07 PM 11/30/2006 -0500, Douglas Palmer wrote:
>BTW -- why compress something when it just makes it larger? The Solaris.bin file is increased in size by about 16% when "compressed." Not a big deal, but I was stuck wondering if there was an issue with the download when the script started failing.

We used compress because we were trying to ensure that people who run non-GNU unix and don't have gunzip installed would not have a problem with the kits.  Personally, I would prefer to use gzip for the reason you note, and we may well switch to it in 15.1.  It -is- pretty annoying to have a "compressed" file end up larger than it started out, and I imagine the number of sites that don't have a copy of gunzip (or refuse to install it) is shrinking daily.

Nathan