Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!brunix!rca
From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NO MORE Squash... (was Re: Using OLD 1.0 Disk as datadisk)
Message-ID: <78577@brunix.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 91 10:38:25 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.205421.947@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1991Jun11.133457.28482@pensoft.uucp>
Sender: news@brunix.UUCP
Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Lines: 26

In article <1991Jun11.133457.28482@pensoft.uucp> kari@finn (Kari Karhi) writes:
>Two suggestions.  First, you could get Squash, available from NextConnections  
>for less than $100.00, and it would help conserve your existing disk.  See an  
>earlier post by Jim Mynatt.  Second, get yourself one of those double-density  
Squash is the most stupid software ever seen on a NeXT. Instead of
writing a program that is compatible with hundreds and thousands of
existing UNIX machines, i.e. writing a graphical user interface to
(gnu)tar, compress, ar, et al. the author of this program thinks that
by using a incompatible scheme and trusting the stupidity of naive
users in combination with distributing for free (haha) a UnSquash only
program, he can create a new standard by means of which he can cream
off the money in the NeXT market. 
Sorry, I only hope that someone will find the time and write a similar
program that interfaces to at, tar, ar, compress and uncompress. For
such a program I would pay, but not for someone who tries to destroy
standards for personal profit. (I think however that many people
proficient enough to produce such a program would make it publicly
available anyway...) 
Another neat thing would be a program that creates file packages for
the NeXT. 

Ronald
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man."   G.B. Shaw   |  rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet