I'm feeling 7-zip, feeling 7-zip....ok you have to be a certain age...

On Jan 22, 11:08 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 8:58 PM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On 22-Jan-08, at 6:00 PM, William Stein wrote:
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> > > On Jan 22, 2008 9:45 AM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > >> Hi everyone, I have no idea if this is true, or if it was auto-
> > >> generated and is spam, or what, but some people here might care.
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> > > I care.  I just tried this and indeed it reduced the size of the
> > > sage-vmware
> > > tarball by over 200MB.  Thanks Lou Blaine for suggesting this!
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> > Wow, that's incredible.  Are there free .7z programs for all sage
> > platforms?
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> Yes.  Otherwise I would of been anti-7z.   Despite the very
> commercial sounding name, 7z is an LGPL'd open source program
> with tons of easy to install binaries for many platforms, etc.
> Check outhttp://www.7-zip.org/
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> I wonder the name "7z" or "7-zip" sounds so commercial to us?  Did
> it used to be commercial or something?
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> William
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