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 Message 2081 
 Wilfred van Velzen to Tommi Koivula 
 Re: Fmail Compression and Decompression 
 20 Aug 23 21:54:19 
 
TID: FMail-lnx64 2.2.0.0
RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes
TZUTC: 0200
CHRS: UTF-8 2
PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221
MSGID: 2:280/464 64e26fd4
REPLY: 2:221/6.0 64e2660c
Hi Tommi,

On 2023-08-20 22:14:28, you wrote to me:

 >>   WV>> But these are the defaults from the DOS era. I currently use the
 >>   WV>> infozip versions, with these command lines:
 >>
 >>   TK> Time to update the defaults for the next release. :)
 >>
 >> And maybe remove the more obscure ones (pak, zoo, arj, sqz, uc, jar).

 TK> Yep. :)

 >> I wonder if there ever was anyone who used any of those!? ;-)

 TK> Back in the day when I had millions of points and downlinks, some liked to
 TK> use rar and uc. Nowadays it should be enough to support zip. :)

I'm still using rar on two links. And outside fido rar is very much in use too.
And lha is in use in AmigaNet, because it was and still is the default
archiver for the Amiga.

Bye, Wilfred.

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