The Logic Off Topic list

> > ?? 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.. Also, both Windows and Macs are PCs (personal computers), so posting it in a non-pc-specific format would make the archive useless for everyone. Finally, since OS X is partly UNIX like, just like Linux is, it wouldn't surprise me at all if OS X came with a built in tool to uncompress this type of file.

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