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From: specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.040948.5971@disk.uucp>
Date: 17 Feb 91 04:09:48 GMT
References: <44647@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: The Alaskan Organization for Amiga Domination
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I would have included the previous letter, but it was too long. It was talking
about a compression retrieval "device".

He was talking about a VAX command to retrieve files from a compressed tape. 
And asked about this on amiga....Well It already exists...:) let me explain..

Just use CSHELL 4.0 and make an alias...
alias store "zoo -add dh0:compress"
alias retrieve "zoo -ex dh0:compress"

Then when you want to store a file..
store diskx

Boom..it puts it in the compressed file. You could even expand this by making
a small .sh to do it and delete the original file after storing. 

that accomplishes what was described in the letter I was replying to. As for
the compression device....I made a compression filter under unix haha, but it
wasn't of much use. The device would probably prove the same unless it had
hardware compression of some sort.

Byron


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