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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe (Compactor)
Keywords: StuffIt, Compactor
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.081123.6451@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 31 Aug 90 08:11:23 GMT
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favorini-francis@cs.yale.edu (Francis Favorini) writes:

>Someone mentioned PKZIP a while back.  Is it my imagination or does this
>program (available for IBM PC's and clones) blow away any Mac program in
>speed, if not compression?  It takes about 10 seconds for 100 K and 
>regularly compresses files by at least 50%.  It would be great if the
>authors would write a Mac version.  Any comments?

I hear that!  Even on a IIfx, the performance of unstuffing in SIT 1.5.1
(where DID that psuedo-multiple decimal format for version numbers come
from?  Do mathematicians grind their teeth every time they see it?)
leaves much to be desired.  My poky-slow :-) 386sx/16 runs PKZIP and
UNZIP with a much greater speed.  I also happen to like the command-line
interface, but it took some doing to remember all them obscure options!

I too hope that Phil Katz gets PKZMac or whatever done.  But portably
handling resource forks, etc., between platforms might be a problem.

	Alex
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