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Article #2930Re: *.compressed (Was: Workspace Disk Eject bug: Workaround available from NeXT)
From: felix.lugo
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 22:11
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 22:11
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In article <1992Oct11.021534.12216@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo) writes: >In article <HARDY.92Oct10182123@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: >>A related question: the DiskEjecFix.compressed announced in >>Matt_Watson@NeXT.com's post came with a nics "compressed" tiff. >>Just clicking on it uncompressed it. Is this a new feature in 3.0 >>different from uunix compress, and how do you make "file.compressed" >>files? (In case you say RTFM -- I installed 3.0 with a borrowed CD-ROM >>drive, and did not copy all the documentation to disk. When I get my >>CD-ROM-player in November I will certainly RTFM). >> >>-- >>Hardy >>----- >>Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine >>e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET >> > > It's a new feature! New .compressed files are created by using tar >and compress. Since Workspace is not capable of recognizing .tar.Z, they >decided to call them .compressed (although .tar_Z, or maybe .tarZ would have >been easily recognizable). > >--Felix > >BTW, Workspace also knows about .Z (compressed) files, but not .tar! 8^( > One correction, Workspace does know about .tar! Thanks Art Isbell! --Felix
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!know!cass.ma02.bull.com!think.com!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!cbnewsd!att-out!cbnewsl!coco From: coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: *.compressed (Was: Workspace Disk Eject bug: Workaround available from NeXT) Message-ID: <1992Oct11.221141.3638@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Date: 11 Oct 92 22:11:41 GMT References: <HARDY.92Oct9215303@golem.ps.uci.edu> <HARDY.92Oct10182123@golem.ps.uci.edu> <1992Oct11.021534.12216@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Organization: AT&T Lines: 30