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- From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
- Subject: Re: DID YOU KNOW DIET144.ZIP ?
- Message-ID: <kko.726521619@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1993Jan8.101452.5010@schbbs.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:33:39 GMT
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- TCSAR03@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Germain Leutwyler) writes:
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- >It is a good alternative versus complete subdirectories archivers for
- >people being short in space with their HD. Try it and let me know your
- >feelings afterwards !
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- I don't quite like diet ... 1) executables compressed with diet cause
- some false alarms with some anti-virus programs and 2) diet doesn't
- work well on a hard disk that was doubled with Stacker and other
- disk-doublers ... Use pklite (pklte115.zip) instead for executables
- (or pkzip or data) ....
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