Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!emanuel From: emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries? Summary: ARC | PKARC | PKPAK | ZIP | ZOO | (...etc) Message-ID: <943@cernvax.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 89 11:04:59 GMT References: <77800005@sts> <275@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <2184@hoqax.UUCP> <9137@mhuxu.UUCP> Reply-To: emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (Emanuel T.M. Machado) Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 39 In article <9137@mhuxu.UUCP> skeeve@mhuxu.UUCP (79533-riley c) writes: >In article <2184@hoqax.UUCP> twb@hoqax.UUCP (T.W. Beattie) writes: >| >|Seems like ZIP is a better candidate for replacing ARC. >|Especially after the abuse PKWARE suffered from SEA. > >I also would rather see ZIP files than ARC or ZOO files. ARC and ZOO are >about the same in terms of file compression. ZIP beats both by a fair >margin. I would like to avoid using any SEA product anyway. > Honestly, I can see the point of SEA in what "she" did to PKWARE. I can understand it, though I don't agree very much on the precedent that it brought. However, it seems to me that it is not good policy to take decisions based on emotional grounds. Come on, that's what the media is always trying to force us into. Politicians too. "Oh, this POOR little defenseless guy was caught by an EVIL, RUTHLESS and HARSH police officer..." (*) So, why go for ZIP or PKPAK for THOSE reasons? I'd propose that some benchmarks would be presented on ALL compression programs, so that we can have a clearer idea of the implications (moneywise too...) of our votes. I'm using ARC, but I'll gladly vote otherwise if I'm convinced that the OTHERWISE is better. Rahul made some good points recently on the moderation problem. I prefer that kind of argumentation. Cheers, Emanuel Machado (*) This is an ilustration intended as ONLY an ilustration. No bias whatsoever in the SEA/PKWARE case. -- Emanuel T.M. Machado, CERN | "Science is true. | UUCP: _ _ | Don't be misled | emanuel@cernvax.UUCP /_ ____ __ __ _