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- This is a VERY robust version of zoom, which in my opinion EVERYBODY should
- use instead of dms:
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- - zoom is shareware but the WHOLE distrib is freely available (dms free version
- is a degraded one)
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- - zoom file format is publicly described, allowed one to make unix tools to
- check/split files
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- - zoom is faster AND more efficient than dms. takes about 5mn to compress a
- disk, and this compresses more than max level of dms which takes 20 to 60
- minutes!
-
- - dms has bugs:
- - dms can fail on archives passing the dms test check
- - dms will happily compress disks with bad sectors without warnings!
- (major annoyance)
-
- Colas Nahaboo, colas@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research, Koala Project, GWM X11 WM
- Phone:(33) 93.65.77.70(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.109 - 06561 Valbonne Cedex, FRANCE.
- (Registered Zoom user)
-