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Article #2419Re: Squash
From: Glenn Reid
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 10:03
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 10:03
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Eric P. Scott writes > Trusting one's data to a proprietary (and unique) scheme strikes > me as incredibly foolish. People do this every single day on the Macintosh. Proprietary formats are slightly riskier than universal formats like tar and compress, but it's not as risky as you make it sound. What exactly is going to happen to my data? I have a stable system with compress/uncompress working symmetrically with Squash. There's not that much that can go wrong. Besides, I've been doing it for over a year, and haven't lost a single byte of data. > Using it for software distribution is > questionable at best. How come? If you also ship the uncompressor, what makes it "questionable"? -- 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: Squash Message-ID: <840@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: 16 Aug 92 10:03:18 GMT References: <1992Aug16.072426.25866@csus.edu> Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com Lines: 23