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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compression programs (a comparison)...
Keywords: arc zoo zip dwc compression pk
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Date: 17 Feb 89 18:46:27 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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  The figures reported are interesting, and somewhat similar to results
I got testing a subset of the programs reported in the original posting.

  One thing which is of more than passing interest to some of us is
portability to other systems. This chart is *not* complete, although I
believe that any program not mentioned is not available in source or for
other operating systems.

	source	<============ avail for ==========>
prog	avail?	DOS	UNIX	Amiga	Mac	VMS

arc5.21	  Y	Y	Y	Y	S	S
arc6.00	  Y	Y	S	-	-	-
zoo2.01	  Y	Y	Y	Y	-	Y
compress  Y	S	Y	Y	-	S
pkarc	  N	Y	1	1	-	-

Y - yes
N - no
S - somewhat, not fully functional
1 - squashed format uncompress available in modified ARC

Please post corrections, I'm not trying to become a chartkeeper (or to
make any point about this).
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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