Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@acm.org>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> Understood. But who is going to have developed such a project, when
> there are free alternative algorithms out there that are more efficient
> and more commonly used, and don't require the developer to get all
> chummy with a lawyer? (shudder)
> 
As is all too often the case, I didn't make the problem. I'm just the
one who has to fix the problem. :-) If it were me, I'd have never
compressed the files in the first place - just bought more disk space.
Barring that, I'd have been flexible about the compression format so
that the most widely used method was employed. Barring that, I'd have at
least not established the rules of the game such that we couldn't
decompress the files to disk and read them as plain old files.
Unfortunately, none of this is the case. Its far more political than it
is technical.

One day when I get to be captain of the ship I'm going to enjoy issuing
arbitrary and capricious commands with a whimsical "Make It So, Number
One!" and let someone else sweat the details. :-)

MDC
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