Re: Tape Backup for graphics files?

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From: Timothy Hu
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:44

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Yes, you are correct. GIF files are not compressed by popular backup
programs. Why don't you just get a QIC-150 tape drive with a 250Meg
tape? Then you'll get 250 meg uncompressed and 500 meg compressed.


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Timothy Hu timhu@ico.isc.com	 | The intelligence (or lack of) expressed
Interactive Systems Corporation  | above does not necessarily reflect
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From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
Subject: Re: Tape Backup for graphics files?
Message-ID: <1993Jan12.204432.5741@ico.isc.com>
Keywords: tape backup
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