Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:35:38 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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	(message from Daniel Reed on Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:27:06 -0500 (EST))
Subject: Re: (fwd) Compression
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> Would it really be hard to have each package stored in more than one
> format, such as a regular gzip'd/bzip2'd tarball for Linuxians, a
> PkZip-compatible .zip for Microsoftians, etc.?

First off, I don't produce *every* zip in djgpp.  Many are contributed
by others.

Second, djgpp is currently (quick typing) 288Mb.  Supporting multiple
formats is NOT an option, just because of disk space.

The only format I'd consider switching to is .tar.gz, which djtar can
unpack, but even then we'd have to provide a 16-bit version of djtar
that supports LFNs, since tgz isn't a standard format in dos/windows.

file	zip	tgz
djdev	1.42M	1.36M
djlsr	1.45M	0.87M