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   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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