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- From: djweisbe@unix.amherst.edu (David Weisberger)
- Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c vs. ARJ/LHA/ZOO Compression/Speed Results
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:57:08 GMT
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- Doug Tooley (djtooley@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu) wrote:
- : Results of Compression Testing: PKZIP 2.04c Jan 06/92
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- : Data: Contents of ARJ230.EXE and PKZ204C.EXE
- : (with duplicate filenames renamed/included)
- :
- Aren't the PK executables already compressed PK style?
- That choice of data won't tell much about .exe file compression then.
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- : Total Size: 720937 bytes
- : Archivers: PKZIP204c PKZIP110 PKZIP193a ARJ230 LHA213 ZOO210
- : Machine: 386/33, 10M RAM \w 128k BIOS Shadow RAM
- : Drive: Seagate ST296N (84M) SCSI controller (no s/w cache)
- : Timing: Norton Utilities' TM.EXE v4.50
- : Execution: MSDOS BATch file
- :
- : Congratulations PKWARE, PKZip's speed and now compression is #1!
- :
- Funny, I get better compression with Zip 1.9 in some cases.
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