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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Zip for distributions?
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 02:48:31 GMT
- Organization: /etc/organization
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- References: <1gku45INN8qo@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Dec15.194751.5379@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec15.194751.5379@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
- >
- > compress-lovers: compress is faster and the unix standard
- > [...]
- > compress-lovers: nope. too slow. its not the way things are done.
-
- This is a fallacy. On machines I have tested, `unzip' is actually
- significantly faster than `tar -zx'. `zip' is slower, but so what? I
- said `distributions', not `backups'.
-
- Feh.
-
- Convince me that reducing the amount of cruft I need to download and
- transfer on *floppy disks* to bring a machine up isn't worthwhile. Or
- at least try.
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