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From: sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (sophist)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: maximal compression utility sought
Message-ID: <8DNHu3w163w@brainiac.raidernet.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 17:21:18 GMT
Organization: Phillip's Philosophy Shop, Nashville TN
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I have searched through various archive indices and have not seen
anything resembling this:

What I am after is a utility which offers MAXIMAL compression (i.e.,
significant improvement over 'compress', 'zip', or 'lzh') while
operating at a much slower speed.  Of course a fast utility like this
would be nice, but the point is that speed is not an issue.  Maximal
compression is.  Does such a program exist?  Is it even possible to
compress files much more than zip or lzh?  What I'd like to compress is
binary executables for long-term storage (archival purposes).  Perhaps
some text as well.  Any ideas?

Regards,