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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] compress, zcat, pack, compact
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In-Reply-To: <002c01c1298a$8d998a00$3cf7c6d4@SOMA>; from Boyd Roberts on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:12:39PM +0200
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:38:25 +0200
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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