Squash CORRECTION and question (was: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold)

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From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:19

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"Matthew E. Kowalczyk" <mk46+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>This is a squash file. You will need "Squash.app" to decompress it.

This is wrong.  All that is needed to UN-Squash things is the PD
UnSquash app (on the NeXT archives).

Since UnSquash is available as such, why isn't it used more often?  It
does a lot better compression than even zip and certainly better
compression than UNIX compress?
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- No NeXTmail please

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From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Squash CORRECTION and question (was: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold)
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