Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!uva!freek
From: freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: some (should-be) ground-rules f
Message-ID: <335@uva.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 88 20:46:19 GMT
References: <643@vsi1.UUCP> <76000213@uiucdcsp>
Reply-To: freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <76000213@uiucdcsp> gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>But when I benchmarked compress on some digital pictures, I found that
>stuffit's LZW algorithm is much more efficient than compress's
>algorithm.  I'm not sure compress is all that great a program.  If you

I thought that unsit used compress to decompress stuffit-files under unix.
That implies that stuffit and compress use the same LZW-compression, doesn't
it?

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