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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: AutoArk
- Message-ID: <3aMD03ktc8jB00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 21:31:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.055606.10289@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1993Jan8.055606.10289@nuscc.nus.sg> ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:
- > The compression and decompression takes up a
- >lot of time, and I don't think this is the fault of AA.
-
- Wrong.
-
- >Worse, compressing is not done only once. When you open a file, AA will
- >EXPAND it. Upon quitting, it will COMPRESS it again.
-
- HP doesn't put you through this. In fact, HP works just fine with
- write-protected disks.
-
- > Perhaps now somebody can do a review on
- >HardPressed?
-
- HP's in beta now. I have to add some changes to the UI, but that's about it.
- As far as I know there are only a couple of people who have seen them
- side-by-side, but their opinions are biased already.
-
- Random numbers:
- - MODs were compressing by 20% (went from 11.9MB to 9.4MB)
- - TrueType fonts were compressing by 25%
-
- --
- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-