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From: Andy McFadden
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 19:55

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While it's still a bit early, it wouldn't be a bad idea to port GNU Zip (gzip)
to GNO.  It's intended to be a replacement for UNIX compress.

It uses Zip's "deflate" algorithm, which will do better than freeze(1) on
the medium to high settings (you can control speed vs compression with -1 to
-9).  It's larger than freeze but smaller than a complete archiver, and has
some useful features.

It's only at v0.6 right now.  You can find it on ftp.uu.net in /systems/gnu/
as gzip-0.6.tar.Z, and it's mirrored on prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/.

-- 
fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]

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