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From: roland@cochise
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The *new* DC Squish from Double Click Utilities...
Keywords: hoo boy
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Date: 27 Oct 89 16:37:23 GMT
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rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) writes:

>Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes:
>>      One joy that a user-enthusiast has when receiving new
>>software is the observation of the evolving improvement of
>>already great packages.
>	[ much lyrical exposition ommitted ]
>>PROGRAM            ORIGINAL SIZE      OLD SQUISH      NEW SQUISH

>But from your numbers, compress easily matches DC-squish on
>performance, and creams it on almost every other metric I can think of
>Sorry to rain on your parade, but "Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts".

Sorry, but you are missing the essential point:

those above programs are creating self-unpacking loadable files, and
the unpacking algorithm has to ( and can ! ) compete speedwise with
HD read times!

Compress is a much simpler program ( yet still recommendable for
archiving )