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Article #3814Re: Zip for VM
From: Tony Tehan
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 15:21
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 15:21
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To throw in my own contribution to the debate on Zip for VM. It would be nice to have for completeness but I think that it would really not be worth the effort. Since Zoo already works interchangeably on VM and under DOS ( and possible on many other platforms ) it can be used by those people who would like to compress files on VM for other operating systems. Perhaps the only change necessary is to update Zoo for VM to the new version which offers a much better compression rate than the original Zoo. Remember Zip rarely gives the most compact output. I think compress will also work on both but I can't be sure since I never tried to get it to work both ways. Regards, Tony Tehan Postgraduate student, e-mail TEHANE92@IRLEARN.UCD.IE Dept. of Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ab65,95472ad3c6b36fc6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10ab65,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-30 08:04:19 PST Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!IRLEARN.UCD.IE!TEHANE92 Message-ID: <VM-UTIL%92013017293657@TREARN> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.vm-util Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 15:21:00 GMT Sender: VM Utilities Discussion List <VM-UTIL@OHSTVMA.BITNET> From: Tony Tehan <TEHANE92@IRLEARN.UCD.IE> Subject: Re: Zip for VM