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From:Martin Baute
Date:15 Sep 2000 at 21:06:48
Subject:Re: AMIOPEN: Compressed archive formats and Installers

Hello David

On 15-Sep-00, you wrote:

> Hi philippe.socias@microresearch.be,
>
> No. I think CD Writer allowed you to save a whole new file and would look
> like it came from the CD. The point here was you only had to save the
> diff, and the filesystem woud undiff the source and delta files - much
> less disk space is used. Perhaps I'm wrong about CD Writer.

Semi-correct. You could both create new files, and replace existing ones.
It�s correct however that full files were saved, not diffs.

Regards


Martin Baute mailto:solar@baud.de http://www.baud.de/solar/
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