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- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Squash
- Message-ID: <840@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 10:03:18 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.072426.25866@csus.edu>
- Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com
- Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com
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- Eric P. Scott writes
-
- > Trusting one's data to a proprietary (and unique) scheme strikes
- > me as incredibly foolish.
-
- People do this every single day on the Macintosh. Proprietary formats
- are slightly riskier than universal formats like tar and compress, but
- it's not as risky as you make it sound.
-
- What exactly is going to happen to my data? I have a stable system
- with compress/uncompress working symmetrically with Squash. There's
- not that much that can go wrong. Besides, I've been doing it for over
- a year, and haven't lost a single byte of data.
-
- > Using it for software distribution is
- > questionable at best.
-
- How come? If you also ship the uncompressor, what makes it "questionable"?
-
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