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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Compressors
Message-ID: <3489@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 91 13:34:03 GMT
References: <10002@discus.technion.ac.il> <1991Jun24.065433.10109@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <3476@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1991Jun26.200005.15317@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1991Jun26.200005.15317@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> elmo@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Cabot) writes:

| 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.

  See the word "new" in my original posting. You are comparing v2.01
with zip1.10 or so, written some years apart. zoo v2.10 provides
slightly better compression than zip v1.10, comparisons of other
versions are not germane.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  GE Corp R&D Center, Information Systems Operation, tech support group
  Moderator comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 386-users digest.