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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Compressors
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.202842.21766@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 20:28:42 GMT
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elmo@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Cabot) writes:

>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.
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>>  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
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>>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.

The new zoo isn't generally available yet.  I'd bet my hat you don't
have it...
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