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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: Zip for distributions?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.194751.5379@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:47:51 GMT
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- In article <1gku45INN8qo@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
- >
- >The free `Zip' utility, and it's compress-like son `Gzip' get
- >significantly better compression than the traditional `compress'. Is
- >there any particularly good reason not to use them for distributions?
-
- Forgive them father, for they know not what they do. About 6 months
- ago this was about 5 week flame fest. Do *not* start it again. Please?
-
- Let me try to nip it in the bud by summarizing the last one:
-
- Zip-lovers: zip is better compression, why not use it?
- compress-lovers: compress is faster and the unix standard
- zip-lovers: but its *ancient*. and doesn't work anywheres near as well
- compress-lovers: nope. too slow. its not the way things are done.
- lha-lovers: hey what about lha! its faster than zip *and* better compression
- zip & compress lovers: SHUT UP.
- lha-lovers: okay. never mind.
- ftp admins: compress/tar is the standard and we are going to use it on
- out archives. we are not going to change the way we run our archives
- because of a flame war on comp.os.linux. do what you like on your own
- systems.
- zip & compress lovers: oh, that is a good idea.
-
- there. thats the summary. do what you like on you own system but the
- rest of the world probably isn't going to change. please let this die...
-
- please?
-
- followups to me.
- jem.
-
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