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Re: is there any support for stuffit ? [turn into \"jpg compression in Stuffit\" ? ]


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Igor Peshansky wrote:
> Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.
> 
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> 
>>> From: morgan gangwere <0.fractalus@XXXXX.XXX>
>>> Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@XXXXXX.XXX>
>>> To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@XXXXXX.XXX>
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Mindless chatter can feed
> the spammers too...
> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>[snip]
> 
> Hmm, I wonder what a Fourier transform for Cygwin packages would look
> like?  Perhaps "binary files get the lower frequencies, and READMEs, info
> pages, etc, get the higher ones"?  Then one could apply JPEG/MPEG
> compression as-is to really save space in the installation...  Plus, with
> all of the binary diff tools out there, even inter-frame compression is
> possible.
> 	Igor

i say we simply distribute a giant BMP or XPM file that has the ENTIRE
cygwin distro on *one* file and you put that bitmap onto your drive

*thats* how ya do it!

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Just a Thought
Morgan Gangwere

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