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- From: mikhe@ida.liu.se (Mike Henry)
- Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.140104.19984@ida.liu.se>
- Sender: news@ida.liu.se
- Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
- References: <1993Jan20.222852.125885@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1993Jan22.014136.8664@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:01:04 GMT
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- gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- *NOT*
-
- I don't know if actually ever used a NeXT but if you had you would know that
- once you've run an app then that app will register which extensions that
- Workspace will recognize and which will cause that particular app to be
- launched. Hence, once you launched UnSquash it will "register" the extensions
- .squfold, .squ etc. so that next time you click on a Sqashed folder UnSquash
- will automagically UnSquash the Squashed folder. Considering UnSquash is free
- (although Squash isn't) doesn't really "remove any advantages". Sorry for the
- mild antagonism.
-
- I'm not advocating the use of Squash/UnSquash in particular since these are
- commercial products, even though for text files and such the compression ratio
- is much higher than ordinary tar/compress. However I do like the compression
- achieved with Squash.
-
- BTW, has anybody heard of the "new" GNU compressor 'gzip', I think it is
- called. Does it use similar algorithms as Squash? Probably not the right forum
- to ask however... B^)
-
- >Greg Colello
-
- -Mike
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