Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:06:27 -0200
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Malcolm Taylor <malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: Why not to use 'tar' before packing DJGPP?
Cc: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>, fighteer AT cs DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 14:41 10/11/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

[snipped]

>IMHO, better compression ratios is not always good enough reason to switch
>to another compressor.  Do we really think everybody out there (GNU sites,
>SimTel sites) are so stupid in that they continue using this ``old''
>compression technology?  Do savings in disk storage (which is about the
>cheapest asset nowadays) indeed justify turning our back on compatibility? 
>I'm not sure. 

About disk storage, OK! In fact there are on the fly disk compressors that
make this irrelevant at all. But I thought the folks here were considering
Network bandwidth (and d/load times) both of which are still not cheap
assets by now!
>
>And btw, at least in my book, availability of free source code to the 
>(un)compressors we use is also very important.  (How else would I be able 
>to make UnZip LFN-aware in less than a day?)  AFAIK, most ``modern'' 
>compressors don't comply to this requirement.
>
>

I can only second this one!
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