Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!hao!husc6!seismo!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!zu From: zu@ethz.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: standards is standards Re: SQUASHED! Message-ID: <131@bernina.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 08:12:39 EDT Article-I.D.: bernina.131 Posted: Wed Jul 8 08:12:39 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 16:53:04 EDT References: <2290@whuts.UUCP> <3320028@hpsrlc.HP.COM> Reply-To: zu@bernina.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen) Organization: ETH Zuerich, CS Department, Switzerland Lines: 13 I don't understand why so many of you are against squashing. It produces smaller archives, what's so bad about that? Ok, you have to use PKARC/PKXARC to get that feature. Beeing six times faster then doesn't seem to be a bug, at least to me. But I agree. THERE IS A BIG PROBLEM WITH SQUASHING !!! If an archive contains any squashed files it must have another extension then .ARC This way, everyone is free in his decision which archiver to use. If he sticks with ARC, ok that's up to him. But his won't have any right to complain if he tries to extract files from an archive with that new extension. ...urs