[SATLUG] [OT] Apple dmg's compressible?

[Bob Tracy]

Jeremy Mann wrote:
> Bob, the DMG file is already compressed. Once you "open" the DMG for
> the Xcode tools it comes out to about 1.5 gigs. You could try using
> Stuffit to see if it will compress more, but doubtful.

That's what I was afraid of, but if I had thought about it for two
seconds I would have guessed the images were already compressed.

Current status on the download: the speed had been considerably better
at various points throughout the morning, occasionally reaching 200+
KB/s.  Now, it's hovering somewhere around 50 KB/s, with a projected
time to completion of approx. two hours.  I can live with that as long
as it actually happens before I go home today :-).  As far as making
things fit on a CD, there's nothing preventing me from splitting the
image into multiple pieces for transport...  Funny how the obvious
solution to the "no DVD" problem didn't seem obvious at the time.

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