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From: gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu (Paul Gyugyi)
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Message-ID: <1991Feb7.232421.3915@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 91 05:17:40 GMT
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Reply-To: gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu (Paul Gyugyi)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: Windows installation disk compression?
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In article <1991Feb7.192957.7986@sunee.waterloo.edu>,
gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler) writes:

|> Well, I suppose it might look cheap, but let he who hast not picked
a
|> quarter from the street cast the first flame. :-)

I never pick up coins from the street.  I thought of the
idea of spreading contact poison (or at least something nastly
like poison ivy juice) on quarters and dropping them all around.
If I can think of it, someone else who's warped enough to do
it can also.  By the way, always wipe off the top of you
soda cans as well. really.

Anyways, seeing as there is a DLL for the expand program
(what a name -- sure have creative people at Msoft, eh?)
someone should write a windows utility to call it.

I've zipped the windows files when backing stuff up to
tape, and there wasn't hardly any additional compression
at all. (it just kept all the files together in a checksumed
file).

--
Paul Gyugyi
gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu