The Logic Off Topic list

On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 06:18 PM, Jeremy Martin wrote:

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

I stand corrected - it can do this.
>
> 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 very true - my apologies. I misread "rar" for "tar" when I made my 
previous post.