In article <1993Apr14.183106.19013@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> zevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zack Evans) writes:

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>Yes, they are gzipped...GNU zip - check archie for availability. If
>Richard Stallman ever made a mistake it was starting to use gzip IMHO,
>what was wrong with .tar.Z?

Well I have _already had three emails about this so I'll reply to my own
post to save /usr filling :->

The people who emailed me pointed out that gzip is a darn site more
effective at compression than compress is. I can see the importance of
this when Gnu rely so much on the net for distribution.

What I meant was using a 'proprietory' (although that term doesn't apply
to copylefted stuff very well) compression system is dangerously like the
sort of thing that Microsoft would do IMHO. At the time of posting I
didn't realise that gzip was a better program anyway, so I shall retract
my earlier statement.

 Zack

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