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Re: .tar.xz only policy
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: .tar.xz only policy |
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Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:07:16 -0800 |
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On 11/18/11 12:48, Jim Meyering wrote:
> For now, I suggest you download the tarball to some other system
> and uncompress it before copying it to your ancient vax.
I expect he's running OpenBSD/vax under SIMH, rather than on
honest-to-goodness VAX hardware. (I used to have a PDP 11/70
in my garage, so I know what that old DEC hardware is like:
heavy!) Anyway, your suggestion sounds good.