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- From: dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch)
- Subject: Re: GAME BYTES: ARJ compression. O.K.?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.123508.27487@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan6.011656.20486@b11.b11.ingr.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:35:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.011656.20486@b11.b11.ingr.com>, ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com (Ross Erickson) writes:
- |> --
- |> A quick question to all game bytes reader, present and future: Due to
- |> my constant battle to enhance Game Bytes by adding more to it yet
- |> still having to fit it on a floppy for transportation purposes, I
- |> resorted to compressing issue #8 with the ARJ compression program
- |> (version 2.3). I wound up saving over 100K of space vs. PKZIP 1.1 and
- |> thus could fit it on a 1.2MB floppy. The program (ARJ) is not as
- |> widely known as PKZIP, yet is far superior in terms of features and
- |> compression ability. Without it, I would have been in a real bind.
- |> Who knows what the future of PKZIP holds. I'll evaluate that as it
- |> happens.
- |>
- |> My question is, does anyone vigorously object to my continuing to use
- |> ARJ for future editions of the magazine? I'm also considering sending
- |> up each issue as a self-extracting ARJ so the program itself wouldn't
- |> be necessary to have to extract the magazine. Any thoughts on the
- |> matter? Post them publically if you like as we might start an
- |> intelligent debate on the matter. On the other hand, you opinion,
- |> emailed to me, is also valuable and takes up far less bandwidth.
- |>
- |> Thanks for reading Game Bytes.
- |>
-
- ARJ is a great program, and we all should use it for compression. In the
- case of Game Bytes, it also has another advantage: ARJ supports multi-
- volume archives, while ZIP does not. Remember the INCA demo? That was
- arj'ed, as it was the only way to split the 5 meg demo into something
- reasonable.
-
- I applaud your decision. (BTW, Issue #8 was great :)
-
- Daniel Silevitch dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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