Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!cooper!dasys1!tneff From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files Keywords: lzw, atob/btoa, 7 bit pure Message-ID: <6679@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 88 14:41:34 GMT References: <6630@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <2736@uoregon.uoregon.edu> <8475@smoke.ARPA> <2594@csccat.UUCP> <424@pigs.UUCP> <6583@dasys1.UUCP> <12229@steinmetz.ge.com> Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: Independent Users Guild Lines: 11 If you have a bunch of relatively small files, you may see an aggregate improvement in raw compression numbers by the LQR method, since you are spending less room on the overhead of the individual dictionaries and the library VTOC itself; however, what you sacrifice in terms of flexibility of access makes it manifestly not worth it as a packing and distribution method. Not that it was easy to get this thru folks' heads in the old days... :-) -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: t.neff (no kidding)