From: Mark Powell (mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk)
Date: 01/28/93 

From: mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk (Mark Powell)
Subject: Re: SLS, why don't you use g
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:38:37 GMT

In article <727444840.AA34218@remote.halcyon.com> Randy.Edwards@f60.n128.z1.fidonet.org (Randy Edwards) writes:
> JL> Before yet another "my compressor is bettor than yours" debate
>breaks
> JL> out, may I suggest a comprimise?
>
> IMHO -- and that's the HO of a Un*x newbie coming from a DOS/OS/2
>background :-) -- I like the distribution as it is.
>
> The problem I see in distributing SLS via any sort of ZIP archives is
>
>that many DOS-based BBS's will automatically convert incoming uploaded
>files to their favorite archive format (ARJ, LHArc, etc.) and will check
>the new uploads for viruses.

Good point. Didn't think of that :)

> Having the files in tar Z format is a good way to ensure that these
>files aren't coverted to, say, a DOS *.SQZ archive format, or some other

Well seeing as freeze is in the SLS distribution, why don't we tar and
freeze the archives? Freeze gets much better compression than compress.

>Randy 

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