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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: New PKZIP expected to ship week of Jan 4 1993
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.152357.20096@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 15:23:57 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.132047.9908@maths.tcd.ie> <725311404rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> <1992Dec26.041734.18508@maths.tcd.ie> <725364826rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
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- >Go ahead and use compress for the rest of your lifetime. Nobody will
- >disturb you. But beware, FSF is about to introduce a compress
- >replacement for the GNU system - it uses the zip 1.9 compression
- >engine ... it may or may not become a standard for other Unix systems
- >as well, we will see.
-
- Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea culpa.
- I'd like to issue a public apology to K-U Rommel, the Pope, et al.
- My posting was made under the malign influence of Sinead O'Connor.
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- May a 1000 compressors flourish!
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- I have tested K-U's assertion, and he is RIGHT.
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- Script started on Sat Dec 26 15:02:37 1992
- salmon 17% zip -r ghostscript.zip /src/gnu/ghostscript-2.5
- salmon 17% tar cvf - /src/gnu/ghostscript-2.5 | compress > ghostscript.tz
- salmon 18% ls -ls *.tz
- 1200 -rw-r--r-- 1 tim 1217329 Dec 26 15:13 ghostscript.tz
- salmon 19% ls -ls *.zip
- 1016 -rw-r--r-- 1 tim 1029762 Dec 26 15:04 ghostscript.zip
- script done on Sat Dec 26 15:14:06 1992
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- {\veryverysmall Sed movet}
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- Timothy Murphy
- e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
- tel: +353-1-2842366
- s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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