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Re: A NEW tar&compress FRONTEND....

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From: Glenn Reid
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:36
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Mark Adler writes

> I use Squash for long-term archiving, but I use zip for moving stuff
> across machines (or even continents).

I love Squash.  It's incredibly reliable and easy to use.  I Squash
things constantly, because it only takes a double-click to get it
unSquashed, and it saves an enormous amount of room for things (like
old source trees) that you don't quite want to delete and leave on
a backup, but you don't access them very often.  It's also nice that
the UnSquashOnly program can be freely given away; I routinely make
floppies for people and put UnSquashOnly on the floppies along with
the compressed data.  Just yesterday I got a 10-to-1 compression
on a directory full of TIFF files, and I thought that TIFF already
had reasonably good compression in its internal format!

Highly recommended program.

[I have no connection to Agog Software other than as a happy customer]

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Subject: Re: A NEW tar&compress FRONTEND....
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