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- From: ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)
- Subject: Re: AutoArk
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.020733.25905@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, NUS
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- References: <3aMD03ktc8jB00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:07:33 GMT
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
- : 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.
-
- Why? Please tell me more about it. I am very interested.
-
- : >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.
-
- What does HP actually do? Expand the file only in memory (like what I always
- thought AA did before I bought it)?
-
- How fast is HP?
-
- : > 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.
-
- So you are the principle programmer of HP? Wow.
-
- What other features do HP have?
-
- : Random numbers:
- : - MODs were compressing by 20% (went from 11.9MB to 9.4MB)
- : - TrueType fonts were compressing by 25%
-
- I think AA performs better than these (in case of MOD songs... am I right,
- DOTW?)
-
- : --
- : fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- : [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-
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