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From: rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: which archiver/compresser and encoder/decoder to use?
Message-ID: <7941@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 18:08:49 GMT
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davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

>  We could always go to ffark (fast-fast-archiver) and compress, which
>gives better compression in virtually every case.

Better than Arc, yes.  Better than Zip, no.  Not even close.

--Richard
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Richard J. Reiner              rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca
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