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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: DID YOU KNOW DIET144.ZIP ?
- Message-ID: <bontchev.726531528@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <1993Jan8.101452.5010@schbbs.mot.com> <kko.726521619@sfu.ca>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 22:18:48 GMT
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- kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
-
- > I don't quite like diet ... 1) executables compressed with diet cause
- > some false alarms with some anti-virus programs and 2) diet doesn't
-
- That's a reason to dislike those anti-virus programs, not Diet... :-)
-
- > work well on a hard disk that was doubled with Stacker and other
- > disk-doublers ...
-
- If you are using a compressed volume, you should not put compressed
- files on it (because they do not compress well). This holds not only
- for Diet, but for any other executable compressor and even for
- archives, .GIF files, etc.
-
- > Use pklite (pklte115.zip) instead for executables
- > (or pkzip or data) ....
-
- Well, Diet has more features than PKLite and sometimes compresses
- better, but the compressed files decompress themselves much slowlier,
- especially when run from floppies...
-
- Just my $0.02 worth...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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