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From: C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Microemacs at uihub
Message-ID: <17012@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 6 Jun 89 18:31:12 GMT
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>> In what is supposed to be a zooed form of Fred Fish 195 microemacs is over
> 900k
>> !  What gives?  Floppies only hold 838k.  Hmmm maybe it was zooed with the
>The disk 195 itself contained some zoo files... zoo can not compress something
>twice... so the zoo files are stored verbatum,  then the headers that zoo adds
>for each file is added,  so it could indeed be bigger then the input when the
I thought about that but 100k in headers seemed rather unlikely expecially sinc
e there probobly aren't very many files.  I guess the checksums could account f
or a lot of it.
>
>Brian Waters              <backbone>!{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters
>
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