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From: churchh@ut-emx.UUCP (Henry Churchyard)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: gnudiff2.zoo compression
Keywords: ZOO anti-compression
Message-ID: <36726@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 90 00:46:22 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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   In the recent post of GnuDiff, the ZOO archiver had packed the
34,557 byte DIFF.EXE file into a 46,648 byte archive.  When I asked
ZOO to recompress the DIFF.EXE file, I got exactly the same result!
This is data _compression_?!   Perhaps it's time to switch to .ZIP.

         --Henry Churchyard     churchh@emx.cc.utexas.edu