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- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Path: sparky!uunet!das.wang.com!wang!news
- From: 0004575791@mcimail.com (Heather Burris)
- Subject: compression programs
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 22:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <13920729222631/0004575791PK2EM@mcimail.com>
- Sender: news@wang.com
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- I am doing a survey to learn about compression programs currently available
- and their comparative results. The results of this survey will be used to
- determine programs we can use to exchange data files most cost-effectively
- over networks that charge per character.
-
- I just heard about this group--perhaps you have a FAQ that deals with these
- questions?
-
- Do you know of recent magazine articles dealing with this subject?
-
- Also, If you are familiar with a particular product I would appreciate very
- much some of the following information:
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- Name of product
- Geared to general compression or specially geared to a certain type
- of file?
- What platforms does the product support?
- How can I get the product (contact info for developers, etc...)?
- Is the product commercial, freeware, shareware...?
- Is source available?
- What kind of compression results have you experienced with the
- product (i.e. % compression for "typical" text file, word
- processing file, spreadsheet, database, executable... -- for
- some value of "typical")?
- What type of compression algorithm is used? Is the algorithm patented?
-
- Please email your response because I do not have direct access to the
- internet. I will develop a summary of all responses and have it posted.
-
- Thank you very much,
-
- Heather Burris
- Burris, a computer services companyo
-