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- From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
- Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.014136.8664@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1993Jan20.222852.125885@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 01:41:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.222852.125885@zeus.calpoly.edu> Alex Raftis writes:
- > Dmitri Linde writes
- > >I suggest sonata start using zip or Squash for compression. It is
- > >trivial to write a shell script which would uncompress and untar a file
- > >and zip it. This way we could squize about 1.5 times as much on sonata.
- >
- I hope nobody does this. The reason is simple. Both GatorFTP+ and the Next
- File Viewer have a built-in understanding of .tar and .Z. This is very
- convenient. Going to something else removes this advantage.
-
- How about this...Why do all the archives have the same stuff? How about
- splitting up responsibilities?
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- Greg Colello
- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
- Stanford University
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