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From: dmm0t@hudson.acc.Virginia.EDU (David M. Meyer)
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Subject: Re: PKZIP does zip on uuencoded files?
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Date: 3 Jul 90 22:16:06 GMT
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In article <26910564.5118@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
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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.

You must be kidding.  I usually get 25-40% compression on uuencoded
files.  Are you using the "-ex" option, to get maximum compression?

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

You could try lharc, but I doubt it would be significantly better.


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David M. Meyer                                       dmm0t@virginia.edu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Virginia
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