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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!news
  3. From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
  4. Subject: Re: Squash
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug16.072426.25866@csus.edu>
  6. Sender: news@csus.edu
  7. Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
  8. Organization: San Francisco State University
  9. References: <1992Aug3.025716.5593@cco.caltech.edu> <55858@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Aug15.235307.1277@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
  10. Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 07:24:26 GMT
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  12.  
  13. Are Squash's file formats (and compression algorithms) publicly known?
  14. Is there a way to unSquash files from the command line?
  15. Is there an unSquasher that runs on anything other than a 680x0 NeXT?
  16.  
  17. tar & compress pass those criteria.  So do many other compression
  18. and archiving utilities.
  19.  
  20. Trusting one's data to a proprietary (and unique) scheme strikes
  21. me as incredibly foolish.  Using it for software distribution is
  22. questionable at best.
  23.  
  24.                     -=EPS=-
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