From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] compress, zcat, pack, compact
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:38:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010820173819.S17724@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002c01c1298a$8d998a00$3cf7c6d4@SOMA>; from Boyd Roberts on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:12:39PM +0200
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:12:39PM +0200, Boyd Roberts wrote:
>
> > I'm tired of compression programs that
> > know every other compression format.
> > They just confuse things.
>
> don't they just. more and more code, for what?
>
Right, back to pack and unpack. Disk space and memory are cheap
and bandwidth is becoming so.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-20 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-20 13:15 Russ Cox
2001-08-20 15:08 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-20 15:12 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 15:22 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-20 15:38 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
[not found] <cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>
2001-08-17 14:29 ` pac
2001-08-17 16:52 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-08-17 17:00 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-20 7:21 ` pac
2001-08-20 7:45 ` Lucio De Re
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2001-08-17 14:19 rob pike
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