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In article <92224.140741JTRQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> JTRQC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
>A new tar & compress front end has been uploaded to sonata.cc.purdue.edu it's
>called tarZan   the file is located in  /pub/next/submissions
> the files to get are   tarZan.tar.Z & tarZan.readme
>check it out and please report any and all bugs and stuff you want added!!

This is all very well and good for people who use tar and compress (most of
the world) but you might wanna check out the new versions of the Unix zip
and unzip (1.80g and 5.0m, respectively) which support the deflate algorithm.
These programs are THE tightest unix compression available....MUCH more so
than the Unix compress.  They can be gotten at gate.gnu.ai.mit.edu via
anonymous ftp.  You should be able to get them and compile on the NeXT..

Mark Neidengard
mneideng@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu

Mark Neidengard suggests:

>> the world) but you might wanna check out the new versions of the Unix zip
>> and unzip (1.80g and 5.0m, respectively) which support the deflate algorithm.

Patience, patience.  Those are beta versions.  The final release versions
will be out in a week or so.  When they are ready, I will put them on the
usual NeXT sites, along with compiled versions for our cc'less compatriots.

>> These programs are THE tightest unix compression available....MUCH more so
>> than the Unix compress.

Yes, zip is rather a lot better than Unix compress.  However, there are
better compressors available, if you have lots of memory and are willing
to wait.  Zip has the advantage of running with speeds comprable to
compress.  Programs like Squash and comp-2 will (almost always) compress
better than zip, and run much much slower.  They also decompress in
about the same time they take to compress.  Unzip decompresses quite a
bit faster than zip compresses.

I use Squash for long-term archiving, but I use zip for moving stuff
across machines (or even continents).

Mark Adler
madler@tybalt.caltech.edu