Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!cybrspc!roy From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: gnudiff2.zoo compression Keywords: ZOO anti-compression Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 90 00:07:10 GMT References: <1616@sixhub.UUCP> Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 24 davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > This was a special case, in which the file was packed with something > or other. ISL reported that GNUDIFF was compressed with LZEXE. > Hopefully a new version of zoo will be forthcoming with better > compression. I noted that PKZIP will store a file if the compressed version is no smaller than the original. This would be a valuable addition to Zoo, since files already compressed rarely will shrink further, and would avoid this problem in the future. > If a new zoo doesn't come out I may either add comments to lharc or > port dwc to unix. What's dwc? I thought I'd seen most all the available archivers for DOS, but that's a new one on me. -- Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE; main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);} "This is cyberspace." -- Peter da Silva :--: "...and I like it here!" -- me