kms@uncecs.edu (Ken Steele) (10/17/90)
Thanks to the person who posted Gravity Attack on
abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov. But what compression method
is indicated by the ZAP extension? (And aren't we
getting a few too many competitors in the file
compression niche?)
--
Ken Steele Dept. of Psychology kms@ecsvax.bitnet
Mars Hill College kms@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
Mars Hill, NC 28754 {some big name site}!mcnc!ecsvax!kms fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (10/18/90)
ZAP, like WARP, uses the most efficient compression algorithm for each
particular track as it goes. I agree that the compresison niche is getting
a little large these days...
--rw
fhwri@conncoll.bitnetBill.Frandsen@samba.acs.unc.edu (Bill Frandsen) (10/20/90)
After obtaining the file "gravattack.ZAP" from abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov, I un-zapped it (zap_1.41 is also in the /incoming/amiga dir on abcfd20) and noted that there are proprietary Commodore Dos 1.3 files included in the archive. Since Tad is worried about copyright infrindgement (as he well should be), this archive should be removed, because it is violating Commodore's distribution status on it's DOS files. Also, the archive contains 3 duplications of the main file! One is exactly the same, and another is a .ARC of the file. This is redundant and is wasting space, and wastes net bandwidth when FTPing. If the necessary files (about 3 or 4 of em) were re-lzh'd the archive should be short, i.e. 150k rather than 400+k. And this would remove the files that everyone has anyway in their system disk. --
tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) (10/21/90)
In article <1372@beguine.UUCP> Bill.Frandsen@samba.acs.unc.edu (Bill Frandsen) writes: > After obtaining the file "gravattack.ZAP" from abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov, I > un-zapped it and noted that there are proprietary Commodore Dos 1.3 > files included in the archive. Since Tad is worried about copyright > infrindgement, this archive should be removed... So why didn't you send me mail about it, as requested in the login message? Posting a message makes little to no sense... ...tad
joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) (10/21/90)
Bill.Frandsen@samba.acs.unc.edu (Bill Frandsen) writes: > After obtaining the file "gravattack.ZAP" from abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov, > I un-zapped it (zap_1.41 is also in the /incoming/amiga dir on abcfd20) > and noted that there are proprietary Commodore Dos 1.3 files included > in the archive. Since Tad is worried about copyright infrindgement > (as he well should be), this archive should be removed, because it is > violating Commodore's distribution status on it's DOS files. > > Also, the archive contains 3 duplications of the main file! One is > exactly the same, and another is a .ARC of the file. This is redundant > and is wasting space, and wastes net bandwidth when FTPing. > > If the necessary files (about 3 or 4 of em) were re-lzh'd the archive > should be short, i.e. 150k rather than 400+k. And this would remove > the files that everyone has anyway in their system disk. > > -- I don't think this is a copyright infringement since the target audience already has these files. Therefore, I think someone should go through and CLEAN UP the archive istead of deleteing it, and then have a file teelling us what file we need and where they should go. I also think that it should be re-archived with LHArc 1.21 since LHArc is easier on users and far more flexible. (It also supports directories) -Joseph Hillenburg UUCP: ...iuvax!valnet!joseph ARPA: valnet!joseph@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu INET: joseph@valnet.UUCP