Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> 
> > >  for s in ../*.tgz; do split -b235k $s `basename $s tgz`; done
> > > 
> > > Maybe by the time 1.5 comes out, in a few months, floppies will be
> > > perfectly obsolete, so we can agree to skip them. :-)
> > 
> > Not likely, so I would vote for the above rule being added to "make release"
> > -- something that should have been done already, IMHO.
> 
> I went ahead and put it in before forgetting all about it. I noticed
> now that none of the current snapshots have splits, so maybe we should
> make this optional?

I missed that start of this - please please please make this behaviour
optional.  For snapshots, it'll double the disk space needed on the ftp
site and it mirrors.  While it helps with downloading remember that some
ports don't actually have or use floppies either...

Simon.