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From: ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: File Compression/Archiving
Keywords: Shar,Compress,ZIP,Lharc
Message-ID: <kaV4m3w162w@halcyon.wa.com>
Date: 30 Jul 90 04:50:19 GMT
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lupic@micasa.UUCP (Jack Lupic) writes:

> Could anyone post the compression ratios and relative speeds for
> Unix programs such as:TAR,SHAR,Compress and Compact.Would anyone be
> willing to benchmark the Unix vs MSDOS compressors?

This discussion just went by the expire routines not too long ago.
I nominally get 49% with 16-bit compress under MS-DOS.  The speed
seems comparable to ARC5xx.

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