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Subject: Re: new category: "compress"
From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
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 * On Tue, 17 February 1998 at 20:23:52 -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote:
 * >  * I'd be more inclined to change the name 'archivers' to something which
 * >  * more obviously includes compressors.
 * >
 * > Like what?
 * 
 * You expect me to have all the answers?  How about "packaging"?

No, but it's easy to suggest that a category should contain such and
such, it's hard to come up with a good name.

As for packaging, it's too reminiscent of our package system and also
too ambiguous to mean "archivers and compressors".

Satoshi

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