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From: kortink@.cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Fast application to archive whole directories
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.200344.17695@cs.utwente.nl>
Date: 22 Jun 91 20:03:44 GMT
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I have sent a new application to the Newcastle info server.

!PackDir 1.00 (de)archives directories. I wrote it to do selective backups
of directories on my harddisk, being terminally frustrated by !Spark's
snails pace. !PackDir uses 13-bit LZW compression, resulting in archives
that are the same size as !Spark produces with 13-bit 'Compress'.

The catch is, it is around 3 to 3.5 times as fast as !Spark. The archives
produced are not compatible with !Spark though, and can only be unpacked
by !PackDir.

As I thought it might be useful to others, I have issued it as PD.

Any comments would be appreciated.


John Kortink

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