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- From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
- Subject: Re: A NEW tar&compress FRONTEND....
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.215318.530@ms.uky.edu>
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:53:18 GMT
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- Glenn Reid writes
- -> Mark Adler writes
- ->
- [pro-Squash stuf deleted]
- -> 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!
-
- No actually it sucks (e.g it has none)...unless you are using one of
- NeXTs TIFF compression schemes...which are lempel-ziv (same as compress) or
- JPEG (radically diferrent and results in a huge compression, but is "lossy" --
- which sometimes is a big deal and sometimes is not).
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