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Re: *.compressed (Was: Workspace Disk Eject bug: Workaround available from NeXT)

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From: felix.lugo
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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From: coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo)
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Subject: Re: *.compressed (Was: Workspace Disk Eject bug: Workaround available from NeXT)
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Date: 11 Oct 92 22:11:41 GMT
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