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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c vs. ARJ 2.39b (and LHA/ZOO) Compression Results ** UPDATED
- Keywords: archive compress ARJ PKZIP LHA ZOO
- Message-ID: <3568@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 00:48:34 GMT
- References: <C0KnA7.1sr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <726586156rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
- Lines: 35
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- Kai Uwe Rommel writes:
- >Doug Tooley writes:
-
- >>I congratulate PKWARE on the speed and compression of their program, but
- >>the best way to damage consumer confidence is to release a long-awaited
- >>product and have it "full of bugs". It leads one to ask: "Testing?!?"
-
- The problem is even bigger. The public trust in data compression in
- general is damaged. The PKZIP failure will generate even more people
- not wanting to use data compression at all.
-
- >Unfortunately, ARJ is a one-platform-only program. There are
-
- Partly, there are decompressors for many other platforms.
-
- >(especially among USENET readers) a lot of people who don't use MS-DOS
- >for one reason or another. Robert K. Jung has promised development of
- >a portable C version for *years* but nothing has shown up so far,
- >please correct me if I'm wrong. And I have asked him for this even
- >*before* I joined Info-ZIP.
-
- Why not make an InfoARJ??? The methodolgy behind ARJ and ZIP is
- very comparable.
-
- >Kai Uwe Rommel
- >Info-ZIP
-
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- To get (many) ==> LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION SOURCES <== get lds_10.zip at
- garbo.uwasa.fi /pc/programming. Make files for Borland C are included.
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