[texhax] TexLive 2008
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Sep 24 01:02:51 CEST 2008
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes:
> Walter S?gesser wrote:
> > The distribution of the texlive2008.iso as a LZMA compression is
> > unbearable. A really bad idea. No doubt it compresses better, but on
> > every and each PC/MAC/Linux you have an unzipper ready to run. Rather
> > download 100 or even 500MB more than run after a decompressor.
> >
>
> If it's in zip format, you'll have to run a decompressor after in the
> same way.
>
> However, I do agree that the instructions for decompressing in Windows
> (involving the command prompt, redirection, etc.) are too complicated
> for the average Windows user. If some graphical decompressor (WinRar,
> 7zip, or whatever) supports decompressing lzma files, that tool should
> be described.
Eh??? What the fuck are you talking about????????
What do you mean with
"the instructions for decompressing in Windows"???????
Go to http://tug.org/texlive and follow the instructions given there.
Everything else is bullshit.
Regrards,
Reinhard
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