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- From: cooper%midkemia@plains.nodak.edu (Jeff Cooper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Squash CORRECTION and question (was: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.235937.17793@plains.nodak.edu!midkemia>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 23:59:37 GMT
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- Reply-To: cooper%midkemia@plains.nodak.edu (Jeff Cooper)
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- J.B. Nicholson-Owens writes
- > "Matthew E. Kowalczyk" <mk46+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > >This is a squash file. You will need "Squash.app" to decompress it.
- >
- > 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?
-
- Actually, there is a beta version of Zip that beats Squash by quite a bit.
- I used it to zip up ModPlayer and it was about 5K smaller than the
- ModPlayer.app.squfold file. Which I thought was pretty impressive
- considering that the ModPlayer.app.squfold file was only about 44K in size
- to begin with...
-
- I'm not sure however when it'll be released for general use, so I can't
- provide source code to it. But it can also work as a filter and it works
- great with Opener, so I have no complaints with it.
- --
- Jeff Cooper
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