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In article <55586@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
> (I cannot begin to describe my feeling of disgust and
> revulsion toward most of these archiving programs.  I've
> seen and used most of them and have not been pleased yet. 
> Especially when they're commercial products.  Kind of
> explains why I don't use them on the files at sonata/nova,
> eh?) 

I think, the most important thing we have to care about is to cut
down transmission times and communication costs. So, it is important
to use the best available compression algorithm--and squashed files
(or folders) can be uncompressed by every NeXT user.

Many NeXT users do not own Squash, so they should use "tar" and
"freeze" for good compression. The worst compress is reached when
using "tar" and "compress". I don't understand why everybody is
using it.

Users of other systems (e.g. Amiga or MS-DOS) also use very good
archiving applications like "lha" or "arj" (may be compared with
"tar" and "freeze".) Why not the NeXT users, too??

Matthias
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