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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: maximal compression utility sought
Message-ID: <2724@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 90 17:36:47 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <8DNHu3w163w@brainiac.raidernet.com> sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (sophist) writes:

|                                                              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?

  I have not seem any indication that such a program exists. The beta
test version of lharc does a little better (and is a little faster,
too), I haven't tried the new compressor from simtel, although I will
over the next week (I don't think it runs in unix, anyway), and the next
release of zoo will also be a little better. I don't see anything which
would be enough better to justify changing now, although I did stuble on
an idea at a seminar which I'm going to test, which might be 20-30%
smaller.

  The programs currently in use are doing a pretty good job, although I
would like something better for images. I have some 24 bit 600 dpi
images which I want to store without any loss of data, and existing
compression just doesn't cut it.
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