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- From: eugene@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah)
- Subject: Re: Drive drive and gzip
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- In article <!#p30+=@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- writes:
- >
- > > I have a feeling that most system administrators would back me up on
- > > that point! In my experience, zip (or gzip) would reduce the disk
- needs
- > > by up to %40, which is a pretty substantial improvement. Furthermore,
- > > compression is free and works even if new disk space is purchased,
- > > so investment in a reasonable compression scheme is going to keep
- > > paying back in the future.
- >
- > Does the new gzip compile on older versions of NeXTSTEP?
- >
-
- Forgive my ignorance, but what is gzip? And where can i get it?
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