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Re: diet and slim

#516
From: Martin M|ller Pedersen
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:01
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calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert) writes:

>Does anyone have any experience with these two disk compression programs?
>I am hesitant to load them without some strong recommandations. How do
>they compare to commercial software like Stacker? My hard disk is hovering
>around 10M free which cramps my work. What I'm most likely to compress
>are programs such as misc utilities and my editor and compilers.

>Thanks in advance for any comments offered.

>-- 
>John Calvert

>calvert@mast.queensu.ca

FYI:

There is a discussion on diet1.44 in the newsgroup comp.compression.

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Subject: Re: diet and slim
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