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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: PKZIP does zip on uuencoded files?
Message-ID: <26910564.5118@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 3 Jul 90 20:51:48 GMT
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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I have been trying to archive to diskette a bunch of the uuencoded software
that I have collected off of the net news, and I was surprised to find that
PKZIP 1.10 gives a compression ratio of 0% on uuencoded files.  This seems
curious, since obviously uuencoding decreases the information density.

Are there any archivers that do a better job on uuencoded files?

I don't want to uudecode them right now, since a lot of them have non-dos
compatible filenames (e.g. for Minix, etc).

-- 
John Dudeck                                 "I always ask them, How well do
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu                            you want it tested?"
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549                               -- D. Stearns