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Article #2062Re: A NEW tar&compress FRONTEND....
From: Glenn Reid
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:36
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] -- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) Palo Alto, California
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nntp1.radiomail.net!fernwood!rtbrain!rightbrain.com From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: A NEW tar&compress FRONTEND.... Message-ID: <834@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: 13 Aug 92 08:36:27 GMT References: <1992Aug12.172335.21102@cco.caltech.edu> Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com Lines: 24