Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:53:10 +0100 (MET)
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To:	Malcolm Taylor <malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: Smaller distribution archives
In-Reply-To:	<199611120957.WAA22298@papaioea.manawatu.gen.nz>
Message-Id:	<Pine.ULT.3.95.961112155013.5789B-100000@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Malcolm Taylor wrote:

>		zip			new
>lgp271b	633,570		346,896
>txi360b	550,850		408,921
>djlsr200	1,214,480	555,716
>djdev200	1,121,916	652,589
>mak373b	196,928		164,776
>gcc272b	1,070,665	859,981
>bnu252b	1,257,436	543,677
>gdb412b	454,984		400,411
>total		6,500,829	3,932,967
Impressive!

>Now for a few questions. What should I call it? This may sound like a 
>trivial thing (it is really :), but I don't have any ideas. Anyone 
>want to help with porting efforts?
I'd like to help porting it. Do the (de)compression routines reside in
library? I can do the port to Win95/NT and try for Linux. For WinXX it might
be also a DLL.

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