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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
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Subject: Re: Versions of compression/archive programs
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Date: Sat, 16-Aug-86 09:25:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 16 09:25:39 1986
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> Version history has always been something I've liked....
> Here's the best I can do from a largely ms-dos background.:
> 
> sq/usq:
> lbr:
> arc:
> uuencode/uudecode:
> compress:
> tar:
> binhex:
> packit:
> 
> That's all I could come up with.
> 
> Edward Vielmetti

An article this informative should get a public thanks, so here it is.  Now,
if I only knew how to get ahold of all the authors/publishers Edward
referred to...

By the way, upon rereading it, I realized that my original posting might have
been misleading.  The purpose of uuencode is not to compress, but to make
unprintable/unsendable files sendable, I believe.  Thus, compressed/squeezed
ASCII needs to be uuencoded.  But this increases the size of the file,
negating much of the benefit of the compression.  This is all over and above
the mashing that usq/arc and compress do against each other, again negating
the beneficial effects of the squeezing.  I just don't think it makes sense
to do it.
-- 
bc				Bill Crews @ NetCor Data International

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