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- From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Subject: Squash CORRECTION and question (was: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold)
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:19:00 GMT
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- "Matthew E. Kowalczyk" <mk46+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >This is a squash file. You will need "Squash.app" to decompress it.
-
- This is wrong. All that is needed to UN-Squash things is the PD
- UnSquash app (on the NeXT archives).
-
- Since UnSquash is available as such, why isn't it used more often? It
- does a lot better compression than even zip and certainly better
- compression than UNIX compress?
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