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Date:	Tue, 01 Jun 1999 15:55:49 -0400
From:	Adam Schrotenboer <ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Compression Formats
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

I am at present trying to contact AIP-NL, the group/company that made
UC2. I am trying to find the status on this project, and asking if they
would consider releasing the code to Open source, thereby making it
available to those in the DJGPP and general GNU community.

I seem to remember some discussion a few months ago about finding a
better format for archives, ZIP being (at least somewhat) proprietary,
and tar.gz being not optimal for compression. In my experience UC2 has
excellent compression, usually being a lot better than PKZIP, even on
max compress level.

If anyone else would be interested in contacting them, to aid in perhaps
getting the code released, the address in the Netherlands is
desk AT aip DOT nl. Maybe somebody on this list can speak Dutch, and could
write to them in Dutch.

Also, the US contact would appear to be thomas DOT bradford AT bmtmicro DOT com.
Unfortunalely, you'll probably have better luck sending to him, because
the desk AT aip DOT nl address appears to be no longer valid.

Anyway, maybe if they get enough requests for this, they might listen
and release the code.

The web address is http://www.xs4all.nl/~aipnl/ Unforunately, this page
contains very little information.

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