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Article #4914Re: Drive drive and gzip
From: Eugene Mah
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:08
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:08
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In article <!#p30+=@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
writes:
>
> > I have a feeling that most system administrators would back me up on
> > that point! In my experience, zip (or gzip) would reduce the disk
needs
> > by up to %40, which is a pretty substantial improvement. Furthermore,
> > compression is free and works even if new disk space is purchased,
> > so investment in a reasonable compression scheme is going to keep
> > paying back in the future.
>
> Does the new gzip compile on older versions of NeXTSTEP?
>
Forgive my ignorance, but what is gzip? And where can i get it?
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