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From: uace0@uhnix2.uh.edu (Michael B. Vederman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PACK vs DC SQUISH
Message-ID: <852@uhnix2.uh.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 89 00:57:40 GMT
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In article <4756@brains.UUCP> george_seto%brains@iisat.UUCP writes:
>Re: PACK vs DC SQUISH:
>
>   Mark O'Bryan
>
>  I have tried both the PACK and the DC Squish(borrowed) on my STadel

Amazing how fast software gets around...

>software and PACK would not work on those files at all. Squish worked and on
>4 files, saved me about 45K worth of space, giving me around 110K free space
>on my boot disk, which previously had about 60K free. So there is a place for
>both. Double-Click will probably find some money heading its' way from me
>shortly. I also did discover that you are right in that PACK seems to save
>more space on the disk than DC Squish. I tried it on Dcopy316.prg
>
>  DC Squish took that 25K (just under) executable and brought it down to just
>under 23K. Then I tried the PACK on the ORIGINAL 25K executable and brought
>it down to just under 21K. Both worked fine. Oh yes, the LHARC files have a
>Shell available and that utility saves a WHOLE lot of space.

DC SQUISH has already been improved!  We are now able to squish much better
now, at the same speed as before.  Sometimes even better than Dcopy can do,
and certainly a lot closer to Dcopy in most cases we tried.


>  I wonder if there is any chance the Dcopy people will be able to get the
>Dcopy utility to handle the new LHARC files as well? That would give us the
>best of the worlds. Right now, Dcopy still doesn't handle some of the newer
>ARC compression routines. I still see "unknown" in some of the ARC files I
>get, which must have been compressed with ARC521b.....

LHARC in Dcopy...  That might be possible, I'll see what Larry says.  I know
for certain that we (Double Click Software) already have it implemented in
100% assembly (thanks to Paul Lee) and we are running it thru its paces.

Did you perchance also 'borrow' DC Xtract?  That will be transforming into
bigger and better things, and you might see LZH in that.

In any case, you will certainly be seeing some other quality utilities that
you will come to know and love from Double Click Software.

BTW - if you care to order our DC Utilities, you can prepay $30 and just
      mail it to us at:
 
      DC UTILITIES
      Double Click Software
      P.O. Box 741206
      Houston, TX.  77274-1206

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Where are you at anyway?

- mike vederman

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