Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!ariel!mungarra!richard From: richard@mungarra.asis.unimelb.edu.au (Richard Begg) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Compressors Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 22:27:00 GMT Article-I.D.: mungarra.richard.677975220 References: <10002@discus.technion.ac.il> <1991Jun24.065433.10109@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <3476@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1991Jun26.200005.15317@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Sender: news@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au Lines: 28 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. [ stuff deleted to keep the brain dead news system from compaining ] > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >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. Er... didn't he say the "new" zoo? Am I right in saying that it hasn't been officially released yet? BTW: When is the official realease due? -- Richard Begg (richard@asis.unimelb.edu.au) Programmer ASIS/ITS - University of Melbourne