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- In early June 1994 the Shareware product CRUSH 1.0 was released, now at
- version 1.8. This program works with your existing archiver to
- dramatically improve compression. In a block test of 128 directories
- containing 2349 wordprocessing files (total 17 Megabytes), CRUSH generated
- the following performance figures (each directory was compressed to its
- own archive file):
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- Ratio
- CRUSH+HA ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 7.95
- CRUSH+PKZIP ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 7.82
- CRUSH+LHA ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 5.46
- HA 0.98 ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 4.32
- LHA 2.11 ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 4.12
- PKZIP 2.04g ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 4.11
- Stacker 4.0 ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 2.50
- DoubleSpace ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 1.90
- Orig Files ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 1.00
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- All archivers were run with maximum compression, except CRUSH which was
- set to minimum. The figures for Stacker and DoubleSpace are generally
- quoted performance figures for comparison, not test results. All the
- figures above quote the compression ratio in terms of disk space used
- rather than actual file sizes (8k cluster assumed) to allow comparison
- with Stacker 4.0. This does not significantly effect the comparison
- between the other archivers.
-
- CRUSH will work with PKZIP, ARJ, LHA, ZOO, UC2 and HA with very little
- overhead in time. CRUSH also allows the user to perform more convenient
- archiving operations than these programs offer when used alone.
-
- New with v1.3! Added support for UC2 (giving the best possible compression
- of any archiving combination).
-
- New with v1.8! Compress up to 10,000,000 files with one command! Added
- DoubleSpace/Stacker support. Choose your own archiver.
-
- ***** Forthcoming products!
-
- Look out for WINCRUSH which will provide CRUSH for Windows, for release
- Summer 1995.
-
- All registered Trademarks are acknowledged.
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