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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:59:38 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Gustavo Pamplona <pamplona@uai.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fixit - Recover Disk 
Message-ID:  <200006152259.PAA00868@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jan 1980 19:40:21 -0300." <3.0.3.32.19800104194021.0068aeb4@uai.com.br> 

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> I'm new at this mailling list. Sorry for my english, I'm a brazilian.
> 
> I'd like to know one thing about this disk. How the guys from Berkeley did
> that disk?

They didn't.

> This is because of the files at /stand directory of the disk. There are 54
> files of 1.1MB at the /stand and this files fill only 1142 KB of the disk.
> 
> How is it possible? (Fill 62MB inside a room of 1142KB)

Quantum compression. 8)

> Anybody could answer to me?

Actually, if you look you'll see that there are 54 links to one single 
1.1MB file.  Look at the crunchgen manpage.

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\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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