Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Compressors Message-ID: <3494@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 28 Jun 91 17:00:00 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 Lines: 35 In article richard@mungarra.asis.unimelb.edu.au (Richard Begg) writes: | 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? It is scheduled for next week, but might slip a week or so beyond that. I have had zero problems in the last month. I did provide some changes to the user interface and better help, but Rahul's new compressor works very well. It appears that the official 2.10 release will have the current version of the compressor, since work on the faster version has not been going well, and there would be little time to test it. This leaves the possibility that in a few months another release would be available, using the same compression in terms of the output produced, but three times faster or so. The current unix version is somewhat faster than the beta version of zip for unix. A later version might also have some of the MS-DOS parts coded in assembler, or like lha have the asm output of the C compiler polished by hand rather than writing new code. The current version has adequate speed and great compression, I think the object now is to get it out the door, and then go for speed improvements. I seriously believe that I know how to get another few percent, although Rahul isn't convinced, but it's not needed. I've been repacking my old archives, and the disk usage has been shrinking faster than some guy on late night TV ads for Slim-Fast! -- 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.