At 08:23 AM 12/17/96 -0500, Georges Fadel wrote
>
>> From Ulrich.Kliegis@kiel.netsurf.de Tue Dec 17 05:28:13 1996
>>....
>> Elaine, it would be nice if one of your students could invest some
>> time to create pkzip - files of the larger stl - objects in that
>> archive. Downloading a 30MB file through a phone line, even if it is
>> ISDN like mine here, has its thrills...
>>
>Most of our work is on workstations, so we prefer tar or gzip, but I will ask
>a student to look into several compression modes for PC types and others.
>
Tar is not an alternafive to gzip or pkzip. As a mattter of course, you
should be gzipping or pkzipping all your files, including tar files.
This is not only faster for downloading, it provides corruption detection.
1) gzip and tar are freely available for the PC. Why not provide a copy
on your ftp site for those in need?
-or-
2) gzip can read a pkzip archive containing one file, and there are free
pkzip compatible readers for unix, so a pkzip .zip file will also work for both
DOS/WIN/NT and Unix, if you put one file (a tar file?) in each .zip.
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