Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ARChiving of binary postings Message-ID: <7386@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 16:39:05 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.7386 Posted: Wed Sep 16 16:39:05 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 10:44:34 EDT References: <138@dalcsug.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 14 Keywords: arc,compress A few words about the use of ARC, compress, and zoo. ARC and zoo run in both UNIX and DOS, compress seems to run 12bit only in DOS (it could barely run 16 bit). Method ARC zoo comp12 comp16 real 100.16 52.72 29.98 28.14 user 92.16 49.62 24.36 24.66 output bytes 87767 82913 86122 71343 Since this is intended for information only, I draw no conclusions. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me