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From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PKZIP problem
Keywords: pkzip, archiving
Message-ID: <260EB9B1.17523@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 27 Mar 90 00:54:08 GMT
References: <305@cancol.oz> <95@demott.COM>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <95@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
$    I just tried pkzip102 on 6 different uu and xx encoded files, and got
$35% compression (-ea4 -eb4).  The only time I've seen pkzip produce larger

   I'd just like to point out that specifying -ea4 -eb4 only does anything
on PKZIP version 0.9x ... the default method on 1.0x is optimal compression
(i.e. usually imploding).  -ea and -eb are not listed on the help screen for
1.0x and in fact have no effect.  So save yourself (and your keyboard) some
keystrokes.

   BTW, when is V1.10 likely to show up either on wsmr-simtel20 or on
comp.binaries.ibm.pc?
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Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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