Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!gumby!obryan From: obryan@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Mark O'Bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: DCSQUISHED file size comparisons Message-ID: <837@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> Date: 29 Aug 89 07:10:15 GMT References: Organization: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Lines: 40 In article , f-leoe@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErik0sterud) writes: > > The dutch PACK.PRG from ST-News packs MUCH better !!!! > Get it from the comp.binary.atari.st archive !!! I agree. I've run PACK on 40-50 programs, it seems to reduce the size from 30-40% pretty consistently. It's pretty neat to watch it strip over 90 kB off from ST-Talk Pro 2, approximately a 42% reduction. I've never had any problems with any of the TOS, TTP, or PRG files I've run through it. I only tried one ACC, which then caused con- tinuous rebooting, so I assumed it wasn't intended for accessories. (Since there was zero documentation, assuming was my only option.) Perhaps that was just a fluke. PACK does require a bit of time to unpack a program at run-time, which works out to a little slower from RAM disk, about the same from hard disk, and faster from floppy (faster to unpack than to read it in). SQUISH is reported to be faster in all cases. Here's a comparison of DC-Squish vs. Pack, using Larry Rymal's reported numbers for DC-Squish (% reduction in size): Program DC_Squish Pack 2.0 -------- --------- -------- JUGGLER2 14% 31% GFABASIC 14% 18% GFABASRO 15% 19% UIS-II 15% 21% ICONEDIT 16% 37% FLASH1.6 23% 32% In any case, I've been pretty pleased with PACK. (Delighted would be a more accurate description.) -- Mark T. O'Bryan Internet: obryan@gumby.cc.wmich.edu Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008