The Logic Off Topic list

At 02:51 PM 9/19/2002, you wrote:

>On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 03:33 PM,   wrote:
>
> > ?? I'm not going anywhere. This archive is just in case the Yahoo
> > Groups servers all simultaneously explode, or for anyone that wants
> > to do off-line searching through all the messages
>
>then perhaps you wouldn't mind making it available in a format that
>wasn't so pc specific.

StuffIt can extract .tar.gz files, can't it?

I'm using that format because a) the emails are "harvested" on a Linux 
computer, and that's the native archive format.. it's not a 
Windows-specific format. Since OS X is UNIX based just like Linux, it 
wouldn't surprise me if it came with the tools needed to uncompress the 
file. And b) the compression it provides is better than any other program. 
It doesn't matter so much for smaller lists like Logic-OT, but the 
Logic-users archive with 119,000 messages is *huge*, and no other program 
can compress 297 megabytes down to 43. I tried with WinRAR (which is the 
best compression program I've found in Windows) and it only compressed it 
down to 55 or 60 megabytes if I remember correctly.

All the best,
Jeremy Martin; sadus@...
http://www.carrollsweb.com/sadus 

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