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Re: The Saltine's Disks Archived at Mac GUI Vault
- Subject: Re: The Saltine's Disks Archived at Mac GUI Vault
- From: dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:45:12 +0000 (UTC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Mac GUI
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Sheldon Simms wrote:
> On 2011-03-01 17:08:29 -0500, Michael J. Mahon said:
>
>> Wholly Mindless wrote:
>>> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>>
>> WRT ShrinkIt, it is ".zip for the Apple II"--there is no other
>> significant archive format for the platform. (Anyone still remember
>> BLU? ;-)
>
> I think I first saw bzip sometime in the mid to late 90s. I remember
> that at first it was noticably slower than gzip but had much better
> compression.
Indeed. Compression is slower, but decompression is just as fast.
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