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From: mjh@cs.vu.nl (Maarten J Huisjes)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Binaries and which packing (Was Re: xx vs. uu)
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Date: 16 Feb 90 16:58:44 GMT
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The main issue here is that whichever method is chosen, it has to run on
as many platforms as possible. Until now the only methods discused are,
originally, MSDOS compression methods. Why don't we use A Unix compression
method, like "compress" (.Z). This runs on a lot of platforms (I've got
a running version for MSDOS), Is public domain. If you don't have it
running on your PC uncompress before downloading and recompress with your
own favorite compression method.


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