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From: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: More sent to atari.archive
Message-ID: <6062@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Aug 90 15:15:59 GMT
References: <1990Aug30.004415.13774@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1990Aug30.085137.6264@math.lsa.umich.edu> <1990Aug30.210915.19063@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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In article <1990Aug30.210915.19063@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@cscihp.UUCP (Ed Krimen) writes:
>- The acid2.arc file is 360K in size, the single file within it is 
>- only 279K. Kind of a drag, that.
> 
>Not my upload. :^) I noticed that too.  There are a few others like 
>that, especially in STe demos in /ste. :^(


I'm sorry about the larger ARC size. Most of the STE demos I uploaded
were already packed and de-pack at runtime. ARC justs stores files which
it doesn't compress, the extra length is probably the ARC header.

I'll use lharc in future if it gives better performance.

Keep uploading the demos!!!!

--Mark.