Hi,

> Using Stuttgart is rather nerving because they pack every file (most
> probably because they're using mirror) apart from the obvious ones,
> so you get base.00.gz and base.01.gz and so on which means
> additional work unpacking them again (but not unpacking something
> which shouldn't), so I still get my stuff

I am not sure what the mirror-admins are doing (some textfiles aren't
packed at all while all the sets get packed...) but once again: if you
see the file `base.00.gz' and want to download the gunzipped version,
just say: `get base.00' 

Bye,
Jochen

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