Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/11/10:11:52
At 14:41 10/11/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>IMHO, better compression ratios is not always good enough reason to switch
>to another compressor. Do we really think everybody out there (GNU sites,
>SimTel sites) are so stupid in that they continue using this ``old''
>compression technology? Do savings in disk storage (which is about the
>cheapest asset nowadays) indeed justify turning our back on compatibility?
>I'm not sure.
About disk storage, OK! In fact there are on the fly disk compressors that
make this irrelevant at all. But I thought the folks here were considering
Network bandwidth (and d/load times) both of which are still not cheap
assets by now!
>
>And btw, at least in my book, availability of free source code to the
>(un)compressors we use is also very important. (How else would I be able
>to make UnZip LFN-aware in less than a day?) AFAIK, most ``modern''
>compressors don't comply to this requirement.
>
>
I can only second this one!
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