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From: ralph@nastassia.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Packer vs. Squish
Summary: So why not have both?
Keywords: packer, dcsquish
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Date: 14 Sep 89 09:11:38 GMT
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In article <890912.10162418.032882@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes:
|           Both Packer and DCSquish are excellent programs, one is designed
|  for the hacker-type who thinks nothing of spending hours to milk out an
|  extra K of remaining space.  
...
|           As a user, the STer really does have a choice.  Use whatever
|  program works for you.  As for me and my house, DCSquish is the one.	
|  
|  Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>


To my mind, all we need now is a front-end to both, which tries both
and keeps the best. :-)  Really, why not just keep both programs
around?  As Larry said, they are both excellent programs!

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