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Article #407Re: Squash CORRECTION and question (was: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold)
From: Jeff Cooper
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:59
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:59
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J.B. Nicholson-Owens writes > "Matthew E. Kowalczyk" <mk46+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > >This is a squash file. You will need "Squash.app" to decompress it. > > 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? Actually, there is a beta version of Zip that beats Squash by quite a bit. I used it to zip up ModPlayer and it was about 5K smaller than the ModPlayer.app.squfold file. Which I thought was pretty impressive considering that the ModPlayer.app.squfold file was only about 44K in size to begin with... I'm not sure however when it'll be released for general use, so I can't provide source code to it. But it can also work as a filter and it works great with Opener, so I have no complaints with it. -- Jeff Cooper NeXTmail: cooper%midkemia@plains.nodak.edu uunet!plains!midkemia!cooper
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!raven.alaska.edu!news.u.washington.edu!plains!midkemia!cooper From: cooper%midkemia@plains.nodak.edu (Jeff Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Squash CORRECTION and question (was: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold) Message-ID: <1992Jul24.235937.17793@plains.nodak.edu!midkemia> Date: 24 Jul 92 23:59:37 GMT References: <Brwr02.Lr3@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: cooper@plains.nodak.edu!midkemia Reply-To: cooper%midkemia@plains.nodak.edu (Jeff Cooper) Organization: North Dakota State University Lines: 21