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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: gnudiff2.zoo compression
Keywords: ZOO anti-compression
Message-ID: <1616@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 02:49:34 GMT
References: <36726@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <36726@ut-emx.UUCP> churchh@ut-emx.UUCP (Henry Churchyard) writes:
| 
|    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.

  This was a special case, in which the file was packed with something
or other. Hopefully a new version of zoo will be forthcoming with better
compression. The only other candidate is LHARC, since zip fails two
requirements for "official" archiver, in that it (a) doesn't run on
UNIX, and (b) is shareware.

  If a new zoo doesn't come out I may either add comments to lharc or
port dwc to unix.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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