[Coco] LHA question

[Willard Goosey]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:14:24AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> Chuckle. He he.  Since I am the one that last walked around in bru1.2, I 
> don't have to look at its compression ratio, which is about -5% as it has 
> no compression built in or callable and adds a sector per file for 
> housekeeping.

Well, then you know how well it would work... :-)  I used it once, and
it worked well, but all the disk changing got old.  

> However, if we had a really good compressor I could plug into bru with a 
> pipe, the thought is tempting because from hard drive to hard drive, and 
> enough compression to make that 90 megs fit in 40 megs, 

Humm.... AFAIK the only OS-9 compressor that might have a filter mode
is compress.

I've finaly found my method of backing up OS-9 hard disks.  Dsave the
entire drive to a drivewire virtual disk, gzip -9 the image, and write
it to CD.  Job done.

Willard
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