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Article #614Re: Squash
From: Mark Adler
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 02:57
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 02:57
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>> 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?? Indeed. Why not? Such as zip, which works on NeXT's (or any Unix system), MSDOS, VMS, and others. (The version coming out in about a week works on OS/2, Atari, and Macs as well.) And is free. With source. The answer is that when you make a package for distribution, you want the least common denominator to be able to extract it. Which means you only use what's shipped with the system. Like tar and compress. Mark Adler madler@tybalt.caltech.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!madler From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) Subject: Re: Squash Message-ID: <1992Aug3.025716.5593@cco.caltech.edu> Sender: news@cco.caltech.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: bartman Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena References: <55586@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Aug1.062112.6120@amylnd.stgt.sub.org> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 02:57:16 GMT Lines: 17