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Article #2068Re: A NEW tar&compress FRONTEND....
From: John Soward
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:53
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:53
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Glenn Reid writes
-> Mark Adler writes
->
[pro-Squash stuf deleted]
-> 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!
No actually it sucks (e.g it has none)...unless you are using one of
NeXTs TIFF compression schemes...which are lempel-ziv (same as compress) or
JPEG (radically diferrent and results in a huge compression, but is "lossy" --
which sometimes is a big deal and sometimes is not).
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!ukma!news From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: A NEW tar&compress FRONTEND.... References: <834@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: slow.inslab.uky.edu Message-ID: <1992Aug13.215318.530@ms.uky.edu> Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:53:18 GMT Lines: 17