Re: A little compression...

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

<heuser.marcus@freenet.de> wrote in message 847d5a50-d9bc-439c-a39b-7a95bf560972@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com">news:847d5a50-d9bc-439c-a39b-7a95bf560972@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> On May 26, 12:38 am, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
> >
> > This utility which really does exist "buckled" and "unbuckled"
> > instead of "zipping" and "unzipping". Now how silly was that!
>
> I've seen worse ;-)
>
> > Marcus, for you, if you want a copy I'll send it to you. No
> > support for long filenames though, but still works.
> >
> > Like I say, I never took this further and just wrote it to learn
> > about such things. But you'll be smarter to say no:)
>
> No. ;-)
>
> I fact I compress everything with GNU ZIP (built into the file
> commander I use daily) to have a common standard. I convert
> all other archives (on the PC platform) to it to have a single
> common standard that everybody can work with - even if
> better compression ratios cam be achieved with other tools.
>
> But thanks anyway!
>
> bye
> Marcus

I prefer ZIP, as well, being it's built into WinXP. No need
to use anything else on the Intel based systems. Of course
I use ShrinkIT on Apple II. That seems to be the standard
archiver of late. And, with Ciderpress, ShrinkIT can even
be opened on the Intel Based PC's.

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com