From asr at ufl.edu  Thu Jul 20 22:45:04 2006
From: asr at ufl.edu (Allen S. Rout)
Date: 20 Jul 2006 16:45:04 -0400
Subject: [Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.
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Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> And that is the reason: everyone who downloads pays the price for unneeded 
> fields in that file.  It was a deliberate decision to minimize download 
> times, which are already substantial for people on a dialup connection.

OK, that meets the definition of "not well recieved" ;) 

Thanks for your time. 



- Allen S. Rout



[Rd] DESCRIPTION and PACKAGES files.
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