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- Version Twenty Four, Archive Comparison Table [15 May 1995]
- [ACT\COMMENTS.TXT]
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- Here are my comments while creating this test:
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-
- AR This program will not accept wildcards, so archiving a whole
- directory is not so easy.
-
- ARI Very slow.
-
- ARJ v2.42b (BETA_3 TEST release), no improvements in compression, or
- any real improvements in speed, just cosmetic changes, with some
- new features..
-
- BSArc I hope that I have used this program correctly, but the docs were
- in Russian.
-
- CRUSH Crush is not really an archiver, it's a bit like TAR, where is
- just stores all the files in one big file, and then lets another
- archiver do the work. Looks like you don't have to use UUC.EXE &
- US.EXE now for UC2 useage with v1.8.
-
- HA Very slow. But the latest beta version (v0.999b) is now even
- quicker when extracting.
-
- IZIP386 This works much better and quicker if QEMM is not loaded.
-
- JARCHIVE Will not accept wildcards with directory paths.
-
- LIMIT v1.2, seems to be slightly quicker when compressing, but slower
- when extracting.
-
- NULIB This program will not accept wildcards, so archiving a whole
- directory is not so easy.
-
- QUANTUM Quantum really disagrees with QEMM, and would only work with QEMM
- unloaded.
-
- RAR This latest beta version, has slighly quicker extraction times,
- but the compression time is slightly slower. For some reason the
- -s 'solid' switch has got worse, and is now not an advantage to
- use.
-
- SAR This does not like paths in the command line.
-
- SQWEZ This program now creates .SQZ files as well as self-extracting
- files. Please note that this version of SQWEZ can have its
- compression level altered, but you are unable to change this from
- the command line.
-
- UC Latest BETA copy does have some minor compression improvements,
- and now seems to be slightly quicker to compress. The new
- SuperOptimize options doesn't seem to give that much benefit for
- the time it takes, but make sure you compress with -tst before
- using the SuperOptimizer.
-
- X1 Very good, keep an eye out for the final release, should knock the
- spots of the other archivers.
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- YAC This beta copy is very good, it has excellent compression for a
- very good time tradeoff, can't wait for the final release!
-