rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) (03/25/91)
I'd like to ftp the 2.0.1 upgrade for my system, but the files are big and I'm not sure I can do it in the space available. My system consists of a iici with a 105 meg internal disk having about 10 megs of free space in /usr/local and a syquest drive which now holds all my mac stuff. The syquest also has about 10 megs of free space. Obviously I could temporarily dismount the mac disk, but I'd rather not. I also have about 2 megs free in /. I have to uuencode the files to get them over my downlink, so I need space to decode as well as install them. Any and all advice appreciated bob ps. is the file 2.0.1_README plain text, or partly binary? Some of it seems unprintable.
liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) (03/28/91)
In <27ED0806.6484@orion.oac.uci.edu> rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) writes: >I'd like to ftp the 2.0.1 upgrade for my system, but the files >are big and I'm not sure I can do it in the space available. >I have to uuencode the files to get them over my downlink, so I need >space to decode as well as install them. >Any and all advice appreciated I'd personally recommend getting the floppy upgrade - it is all external storage (only 14 floppies, which is irritationg but much less than a whole afternoon's work) and takes up next to no space doing the upgrade. Plus you get MacX 1.1 which you don't from the cpio archive. >ps. is the file 2.0.1_README plain text, or partly binary? Some of >it seems unprintable. Guess what - it is an AppleSingle format TeachText document. TextEditor can read these (I discover) and anyway it seems to be word-for-word identical to the file README in that same directory.