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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:01:20PM -0400, sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> I thought xpdf 2.02 would be  better than xpdf 0.90 (bug fixes) and
> I assumed the packages were similar in size. 
> What makes the package at foo.labs so huge?
> 
> > > I downloaded xpdf (from foo.labs), 6M 
> > 
> > The xpdf package in Slackware 7.1 is 682kb.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for this useful information.
> Can I look for individual files online with lynx or links,
> without needing to download MANIFEST.gz first?

You can browse the ftp mirror:

ftp://ftp.eunet.be/pub/linux/slackware/
ftp://ftp.kpn.be/pub/linux/slackware/