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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: COMPRESS
Message-ID: <9996.AA9996@heimat>
Date: 23 Nov 89 03:16:11 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <2176@leah.Albany.Edu>, wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) writes:
|>In article <9980.AA9980@heimat>, sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
|>   Would the world not be a better place if we could simply (ala Unix) link
|>   'uncompress' to 'compress'? Somehow in my warped mind I think so.
|
|It seems to me to be a question of whether a linking arrangement would
|use more or less memory than
|                             alias uncompress  compress -z 
|where 'z' is the correct flag.  Since the linking system is hypothetical,

  I agree in this case an alias would work just as good. A link would
  require disk space where an alias requires memory. Perhaps the best
  choice will vary depending on what each user can spare. But my -real-
  reason for wanting links is for AmigaUUCP and cross-posted messages.
  Currently it makes a copy for each newsgroup, boy would links be nice.

  Sneakers

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