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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Archiver
Message-ID: <1991May10.031244.3509@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 03:12:44 GMT
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Distribution: comp.compression
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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In article <1822@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>Nobody has mentioned zoo as a compressing archiver.
>It's been around longer than lharc, and works pretty well.

The version of Zoo I have (2.01) runs at about half the speed of tar
and compress on my system, and doesn't compress as well to boot.
For example, on a 6.4M postscript file, compress made it 733277
bytes in 28.6 seconds, and zoo made it 836005 bytes in 53.9 seconds.

However, I have heard rumor of a new and improved zoo coming out
Real Soon Now.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu