Re: The Saltine's Disks Archived at Mac GUI Vault

[wholly@whollymindless.com (Wholly Mindless)]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> I just ask because it would be fun to invent three more formats before
> lunch today, since they are so important now that we have megabits per
> second of bandwidth and terabytes of storage.  ;-)
> 
> Seriously, I can understand it for lossy compression of specialized data
> types, like sound, pictures, etc., but have there really been any major
> breakthroughs in lossless compression of general binary data?
> 
> Sorry for the rant, but this is like inventing new kinds of 115v plugs!

Actually, bzip is pretty old and very compatible with all the unix
derivatives.  Not a brand new magical compression.  Unusual in this case,
but it's how I feel about shk archives when I don't have ciderpress
installed.

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Wholly