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- From: incubus@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Squash
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.235307.1277@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 23:53:07 GMT
- References: <1992Aug3.025716.5593@cco.caltech.edu> <55858@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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- In article <55858@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
- >
- >Someone just said that transfer time should be our major
- >concern. Maybe, but I think it is far more important to be
- >accessible to the maximum number of users. The
- >difference between an archive and just a guy who has a lot
- >of stuff is mainly one of stability and accessibility.
- >
- >The compression issue >is< important to me, but I'm just
- >not swayed yet.
-
- I own Squash, and have since uncompressed every .tar.Z file and
- Squashed it. Squash typically can compress things in 55-65% of the space
- it takes tar and compress. And has a much nicer interface. And with
- UnSquashOnly being free, I don't see why anyone would want to distribute
- software in .tar.Z format.
-
- Alex
-