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From: elmo@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Cabot)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Compressors
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.200005.15317@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 20:00:05 GMT
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In <3476@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:

>  I ran tests on all the archivers I could find, and I believe that arj
>beats lha by about a percent on average, lha beats new zoo by about a
>percent on average, and new zoo beats zip by about 4 percent on average.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  I think zip will continue to be used on many sites, while zoo will be
>used here because going to a new version won't break all the moderator
>and unpack scripts, and will provide somewhat better compression than
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>zip.
^^^^
Not on my PC it doesn't. I have routinely unzooed everyfile that
I have gotten from comp.binaries.ibm.pc and recompressed them with
pkzip 1.1 and have reclaimed on the order of 5k for every 30k of
zoo file.  I have my pkzip set for maximum compression, not maximum
speed.

-EC

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