Re: Suggestion re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree

Jes Sorensen
2002-04-23T15:07:32Z

>>>>> "Larry" == Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:

Larry> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:10:28AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> One thing that really irritates me about the bkbits.com page
>> (unless I missed figuring out how to so this) is that you can't
>> seem to be able to pull down the plain text version of a source
>> file. The only thing it will give you is a vile HTML'ified version
>> which adds about 15 chars/line with naming and which has all tab's
>> converted into spaces.
>>
>> Any chance you'd add this?

Larry> Sure, as soon as we find a mirror for bkbits.net, having a
Larry> plain text interface to the files/patches, is a fine idea.
Larry> Until then, I need to hoard my bandwidth. I'm working on the
Larry> mirror problem.

My suggestion is actually a bandwidth saver, browsing it and searching
for the text file made me download a lot of HTML I would never have
downloaded.

And just the spaces replaced with the original tabs would be a big
save ;-)

Jes