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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
Message-ID: <14451@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 01:39:08 GMT
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Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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     Personally, I'd like PkaZip a lot more if it didn't need more than 400K
to compress two 20K files stored on floppy.
     I ran PkaZip with around 400K free, told it to compress two (2) 20K
(20K) files. Ran out of RAM and gave me a visit from the guru. Ran it again
(everything else idenical, save for moving stuff out of RAM) with 500K, and
it worked.
     500K to compress two 20K files is not what I consider to be acceptable
performance. Mr. Katz may be a good programmer in the MS-DOS world, but if
this is what he considers "good" AmigaDOS code, I'd like to refer him to
the ARP people, and others of their ilk, so he'll know what to compare
himself against.
                                                      - R'ykandar.
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