On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:
How about a book full of 2D barcodes?
As a plus perhaps the book would be more compact, as you could gzip it first -- the full source tree looks to be over a foot of doublesided paper!
Well, remember the reason we did this: to get the code out of the US in a way that the government couldn't screw with at all. Readable text is clearly a publication, and thus unrestrictable. There is a chance, however small, that gzip (and tarring I'd assume) the tree and then putting it in as text (or bar-coding it) would cloud the issue some. (Isn't part of this to do with human-readable as opposed to machien readable?) Besides, this way it's easier to spot the errors simply by comparing, with bar-codes and such you'd never ever be able to look at the errors yourself and find them. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere> "Who knows, even the horse might sing" Wayne State University - CULMA "May you live in interesting times.." randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu Ohio = VYI of the USA PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 -----------------------------------------------------------------------