Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!psuvax1!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!linhart From: linhart@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mike Threepoint) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission Keywords: Yale, Master... Message-ID: Date: 12 May 88 17:48:28 GMT References: <299@cullsj.UUCP> <4280@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: linhart@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP (Mike Threepoint) Distribution: na Organization: The Society for Creative Euthanasia Lines: 34 Disclaimer: If you find me in error, report to your local SCE representative. Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:290 comp.sources.d:2154 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!psuvax1!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!linhart From: linhart@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mike Threepoint) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission Keywords: Yale, Master... Message-ID: Date: 12 May 88 17:48:28 GMT References: <299@cullsj.UUCP> <4280@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: linhart@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP (Mike Threepoint) Distribution: na Organization: The Society for Creative Euthanasia Lines: 34 Frperg-Zrffntr: Or fher gb qevax lbhe Binygvar. tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: -=> The source for ARC is available too, and it's running on (for instance) -=> this Stride. >sigh< But the only squash source I can find is in Pascal. Speaking of which... -=> Don't confuse the ARC standard with Phil Katz's PC-optimized clone PKARC. -=> Due to an assiduous sales job most PC sysops have the Katz thing, but it -=> ain't the original. The "C" language real McCoy is slower on PC's but -=> more portable. "Accept no imitations" should be reserved to sales jobs. PKARC is faster and compresses smaller, why wouldn't they use the Katz thing? ARCE, NARC, and NSWEEP also support squashing, so it's not even forcing PK(X)ARC on the users. My bottom line is the archive size, speed is gravy unless it operates as slow as... oh, I dunno... ARC? :-) On my BBS, my own experience is that PKARC creates smaller archives than ZOO, so I use PKARC when I don't need to store a directory subtree. Squashing has saved over a meg of space on my board. Sometimes PKARC is stupid about compression and squashes when it should crunch or crunches at a 0% compression rate instead of storing, but most of the time it's smaller. If ZOO crunched as well (>sigh<), I would use that. [Selfish mode: Maybe Rahul could find out what hashing algorithm PK or DWC is using to get better compression rates. Would simply things for me considerably.] -- "...billions and billions..." | Mike Threepoint (D-ro 3) -- not Carl Sagan | linhart@topaz.rutgers.edu "...hundreds if not thousands..." | FidoNet 1:107/513 -- Pnews | AT&T +1 (201)878-0937