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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Best Cruncher?
- Date: 12 Mar 96 10:38:21 GMT
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- Salutations Mathew for on the 12 Mar 96, verilly did you scribe;
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- MH> In terms of raw compression ability, Crunch-Mania is probably the best.
- MH> A demo of 1.91 is on Aminet:
- MH> CrMv191t.lha util/pack 196K 104+Crunch-Mania V1.91t - some Bugs
- MH> fixed
-
- Another package which is only very slightly less compressive than Crunch
- Mania but a little more OS friendly is Imploder 4. Takes ages to compress
- but it always compresses better than PP 4+ and decompresses faster.
-
- However, I agree. Executable file compressors days are over. Necessity for
- cover disks though. :-/
-
- MH> transparent than compressing files individually. It also may save you
- MH> more space, since it can compress data files as well as executables, in
- MH> each case using an XPK compression method tailored to the file in
- MH> question (e.g. SQSH for music modules, FAST or no compression for
- MH> frequently accessed files, CRM2 or SHRI for seldom accessed files,
- MH> etc.)
-
- What happened to RAKE? RAKE, SQSH and FAST on 0% mode are the only three
- useful libraries IMHO.
-
- MH> (note that the compression algorithms used in both Powerpacker and
- MH> Crunch- Mania are available as XPK sublibraries too).
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- PP and Imploder. Both of which are a waste of time compared to RAKE.
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