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- From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
- Subject: Re: Squash CORRECTION and question (was: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.063436.3056@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 06:34:36 GMT
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- >> Actually, there is a beta version of Zip that beats Squash by quite a bit.
- >> I used it to zip up ModPlayer and it was about 5K smaller than the
- >> ModPlayer.app.squfold file. Which I thought was pretty impressive
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- I found a file or two that even the old zip beat Squash on, but that was
- an oddity. I expect Squash to beat the new zip most of the time. Zip
- was written to be fast and have good compression. Squash was written
- to be slow, use a lot of memory, and get the best possible compression
- using known techniques.
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- There are also public domain compressors that use similar techniques
- to Squash, and are slower and compress better, consistently, than
- Squash.
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- Squash has the advantage however of being a well thought out NeXTstep
- GUI application.
-
- >> I'm not sure however when it'll be released for general use, so I can't
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- In about a week and a half.
-
- Mark Adler
- madler@tybalt.caltech.edu
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