Re: 7-ZIP for Mac OSX ???

["sfahey" <sfahey@a2central.com.remove-kix-this>]

  To: Michael J. Mahon
  Re: Re: 7-ZIP for Mac OSX ???
  By: Michael J. Mahon to comp.sys.apple2 on Thu Jul 02 2009 11:26 am

 > Occasional specialized filetypes have special redundancies that
 > justify particular compressions (JPEG, MP3, etc.), but virtually
 > everything else can be sufficiently compressed with a standard
 > app--and the world is much better with fewer "standards".  ;-)
 > 
 > The last thing we need is a bunch of people writing their own
 > peculiar data compression programs for public distribution.

Yeah, because if no one didn't try to innovate and do something better than the
existing standard, we could all still be using ARC to archive our files. Damn
you Phil Katz for writing your own peculiar data compression program for public
distribution that eventually became a popular standard.

</sarcasm>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(file_format)

Sean Fahey
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