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- From: Pontus Berg <Pontus.Berg@p71.anet.canit.se>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 00:11:47 +0100
- Subject: Packers / Expert Cartridge...
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- In a message of 28 Jan 96 Bonestripper/Omni wrote to All:
-
- >> : Just wondering: what's the best Packer?? I've always used the one that
- >> : came with the Expert 3.2 software, & always thought it to be pretty
- >> tight...
-
- >> Hmmm, I don't know what's really the best packer(s) in the world, but I
- >> use the combination SuperZipper v8 and ByteBoiler v1 (by Oneway).
-
- BO> I don't know what the best is either, but you could try Abuze-Cruncher
- BO> 3.1 or higher. It is a good packer that only takes about 10 minutes for
- BO> a 200 block file (which is less than half the time it takes for Cruel
- BO> Crunch).
-
- Oh boy. From under what rock did you crawl up? :-) (Sorry, no hard feelings!)
-
- Abuze Cruncher used to be a fast cruncher that could provide you with a decent
- crunchresult, but was never the best around. (I should know - I was a betatester
- and am greeted in all the original Dino-versions I've seen!)
-
- Nowadays nobody should waste time crunching without a REU. ByteBoiler and
- DarkSqueezer4 will do 200 blocks in less than a minute and will spank the crap
- out of the abuzer even the cases that goes totally in the abuzes favour!
-
- BO> BTW, anybody remember a packer called Master-Compacter (I think that's
- BO> what it was called). It took 6 hours to pack a 180 block file!
-
- ... but then again the owners had a tools worthy lots of respect at the time.
- It was for the inner circle only (unlike all OneWay crunchers) and lots of
- people did lots of assslicking to get it. I never got it while it was
- competetive, but then again I swapped with Matcham so I had good timecrunchers
- handy. ;-)
-
- BTW: CruelCrunch took 10+ hours before it told you that it couldn't crunch the
- file it was working on. Some disappointment after a nights work ;-)
-
- /Pontus Berg, Bacchus@FairLight.COM
-
- ... MicroSoft, as good as AIDS!
- (Pontus)
-