[h-e-w] Re: Emacs 21.1 released - MS Windows distribution available

[Andrew Innes]

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