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- From: dmitri@physics (Dmitri Linde)
- Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
- References: <1993Jan20.222852.125885@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1jnlpbINNgl5@pith.uoregon.edu>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:53:06 GMT
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- >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.
- Use Opener.app from sonata. It will unzip .zip files when you double click
- on them.
-
- > There's perhaps one problem with this idea. Many of us post
- packages to sonata
- > in order to make installing them easier for new users. The problem
- lies in that
- > the main file in a .pkg is a .tar.Z file, which would not likely
- compress more
- > than it is already has been. That's always a problem with
- compressing
- > compressed files. In fact, if you force compression of a compressed
- file, you
- > often get a file that's larger than the original.
- >
-
- 1)Many ( at least half ) of the files on sonata are not pkg.
- 2)zip will usually get about 15% compression on tar.Z files so .pkg
- files will be compressed by at least more than 15%.
-
- Dmitri
- dmitri@StarConn.com
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