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From: bill@iccdev.UUCP (Bill Gaines)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SEA ARC Rel 5.30
Message-ID: <424@iccdev.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 00:30:47 GMT
References: <111.23720D30@medsoft.uucp>
Reply-To: bill@iccdev.UUCP (Bill Gaines)
Organization: Industrial Computer Corp., Atlanta
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In article <111.23720D30@medsoft.uucp> jhom@f20.n135.z1.uucp (Joaquim Homrighausen) writes:
>
>This is strange.. this is not the result I experienced. I used 
>ARC (SEA) on a 600K file of binary information and it took ARC 
>60% ('bout) longer to crunch the file than it took PKarc to 
>squash it. I did however notice that ARC 5.3 was much faster 
>than previous versions.
>
>

I have to agree with this.  My tests show that the ARC program is slower
than the PK  software.  The QARC  program  that comes  with 5.30 is very
close  to the PK  software  in  performance.  It  does  generate  larger
archives than ARC does though.

On a different  note, I have been having some problems with the new ARC.
The manual  says that you can convert  ARC files that show up with files
that are  deviants  (I took this to mean PK files) by using  the "ARC C"
construct.  When I tried  this, it wiped out the  archive.  It convert a
100K  file to 89 bytes.  I tried it on one built by the SEA ARC.  It did
the same  thing.  The first  time I tried it, I did not do it on a copy.
It caused me to lose one  archive  file.  Has  anyone  else  tried  this
feature?

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Bill Gaines
Industrial Computer Corporation
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