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From: colas@lemur.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
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Subject: Re: .ZOM archives -- DONT USE IT!!!
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Date: 25 Apr 91 08:36:24 GMT
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In article <4975.28154bfb@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> you write:
>	I haven't had a problem with Zoom yet.  I've decrunched many files
>(haven't had a need to crunch, so I cant' speak on that yet)

yes, problem are much more on the compressing side, which explains why you didnt
see them: bad .zom archives couldn't be uploaded, since zoom gurued the
machine... You only get to see the good ones. I have got some cases where it
compressed Ok, and decrunched a non-working disk. Granted, dms is slower, but
better safe than soirry. Besides, I use low compression (cmode 1 or 2) which is
super-fast, although not efficient, but Ftp transfers are fast, so there is no
need to super-compress files generally. And uploading a bad .zom file is so
annoying, you don't do it twice! Fool me once, shame on zoom, fool me twice,
shame on me!

> problem whatsoever.  I liked it because it was not only faster, but I didn't
> need to wipe the disk it was decrunching to.  It wiped it for me.  

DMS does it too, only slower. It would be a NICE addition to dms to use the
lhlib (fish disk 436) to provide a lz-mode compression at near no programming
costs for the DMS authors... Do SDS people have net access?

> I'll give it
> a shot crunching some disks and see if that GURU's it or not.

Try on non-amigados format (games), or disks containing already compressed data
(.lzh), that's the most probable way of calling Mr meditation...

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