Return-Path: Delivery-Date: Received: from leopard.cs.byu.edu (no rfc931) by swan.cl.cam.ac.uk with SMTP (PP-6.5) outside ac.uk; Wed, 16 Mar 1994 11:44:47 +0000 Received: by leopard.cs.byu.edu (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA16092; Wed, 16 Mar 1994 04:32:43 -0700 Sender: info-hol-request@lal.cs.byu.edu Errors-To: info-hol-request@lal.cs.byu.edu Precedence: bulk Received: from localhost by leopard.cs.byu.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA16083; Wed, 16 Mar 1994 04:32:36 -0700 To: chou@cs.ucla.edu Cc: info-hol@leopard.cs.byu.edu Subject: Re: Gzip for compression In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Mar 1994 01:57:45 PST." <9403160957.AA13711@maui.cs.ucla.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 04:32:36 -0700 From: Kelly Hall Message-ID: <"swan.cl.cam.:278830:940316114531"@cl.cam.ac.uk> On Wed, 16 Mar 94 01:57:45 PST chou@cs.ucla.edu writes +-------------------- > I do, I do! If something isn't broken, please don't fix it! > I don't have gzip on my computer and don't want to spend the time > to install it either. I'll be happy to install gzip for anyone who lacks the time. The advantages of gzip (controversy-free algorithm and increased performance) far outweigh the 5 minute hassle of building the executable. Unless you have a unix box from Mars, installing gzip boils down to two commands ('configure' and 'make install'). Kelly