From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 7 12:17: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436D837B80E; Sun, 7 May 2000 12:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA25588; Sun, 7 May 2000 21:18:01 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20000507211801.C25313@foobar.franken.de> Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 21:18:01 +0200 From: Harold Gutch To: Will Andrews , Alexander Langer Cc: "Chris D. Faulhaber" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers Makefile ports/archivers/mscompress Makefile ports/archivers/mscompress/files md5 ports/archivers/mscompress/pkg COMMENT DESCR PLIST References: <200005071320.GAA87412@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000507153356.A7211@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000507135236.D58516@argon.blackdawn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <20000507135236.D58516@argon.blackdawn.com>; from Will Andrews on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:52:36PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:52:36PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 03:33:56PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > > > New port: mscompress, a Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe" > > > compatible (de)compressor > > > > You've just sold your soul, congrats :) > > Nope - how else are you going to get data compressed by Microsoft weenies > decompressed on your machine so you can compress it in a better format? :) As the data originates from some avarage Microsoft weenie, you could use rm(1) or dd(1) in combination with /dev/null - and gzip(1) if you wish :). bye, Harold -- Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have been lost waiting for NT to reboot. Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message