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Subject: Re: Zipping a file... why??

From: Scott Gibbons <nomusic@...>
Date: 2000-04-15

>I'm about to lost my freaking mind trying to zip some patches so that
>I can upload them on to the site. Any suggestions on easiest way to
>zip an AN file? I'm new to zipping files. Thanks.

After having some nightmarish experiences at work last week with compressed
files (yeah, you DO run the risk of losing data when you compress files -
that's what compression does!) I gotta wonder why we're compressing these
files anyway. They're not that big, so what's the deal? I also wonder about
using the ZIP protocol since that's a compression designed for Windows. Any
kind of raw sysex file would be cross-platform.... er, I guess it would
more accurately be "not platform-specific."

opinions?

- Scott
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