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- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: A NEW tar&compress FRONTEND....
- Message-ID: <834@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 08:36:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.172335.21102@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Mark Adler writes
-
- > I use Squash for long-term archiving, but I use zip for moving stuff
- > across machines (or even continents).
-
- I love Squash. It's incredibly reliable and easy to use. I Squash
- things constantly, because it only takes a double-click to get it
- unSquashed, and it saves an enormous amount of room for things (like
- old source trees) that you don't quite want to delete and leave on
- a backup, but you don't access them very often. It's also nice that
- the UnSquashOnly program can be freely given away; I routinely make
- floppies for people and put UnSquashOnly on the floppies along with
- the compressed data. Just yesterday I got a 10-to-1 compression
- on a directory full of TIFF files, and I thought that TIFF already
- had reasonably good compression in its internal format!
-
- Highly recommended program.
-
- [I have no connection to Agog Software other than as a happy customer]
-
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- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
- RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
- Palo Alto, California
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