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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!MAPS.CS.CMU.EDU!mfp
  2. From: mfp+@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Polis)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Re: Stacker like file system
  5. Message-ID: <BtpF3M.2xn.2@cs.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: 28 Aug 92 17:26:08 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: cs.BtpF3M.2xn.2
  8. References: <1992Aug28.075627.13395@infko.uucp>
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  10. Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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  14. In article <1992Aug28.075627.13395@infko.uucp>, hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de writes:
  15. |> Having a /usr/compressed/pics directory with on-the-fly compression would be
  16. |> a dream come true.
  17. How about storing them as GIF's, which are inherently compressed using
  18. the LZW algorithm (the one used by compress).
  19.