Sender: root AT freenet DOT macatawa DOT org Message-ID: <37543AC5.420E790B@lycosmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 15:55:49 -0400 From: Adam Schrotenboer Organization: Dome-S-Isle Data X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.3.31 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Compression Formats Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Unfortunalely, you'll probably have better luck sending to him, because the desk AT aip DOT nl address appears to be no longer valid.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.