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- From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (Mike Marcelais)
- Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c vs. ARJ/LHA/ZOO Compression/Speed Results
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.143339.28730@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <C0IE0M.JCr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:33:39 GMT
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- In article <C0IE0M.JCr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, djtooley@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Doug Tooley) writes:
- |>
- |> For those interested, here is my posting to comp.compression:
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- |> Results of Compression Testing: PKZIP 2.04c. Jan 06/92
- [...]
- |> Archivers: PKZIP204c PKZIP110 PKZIP193a ARJ230 LHA213 ZOO210
- [...]
- |> Results:
- |>
- |> TIME FILENAME SIZE COMMAND
- [...]
- |> My comments:
- |>
- |> Well, the new ZIP takes it hands down.
- |> --- Doug
- |>
- |> ...."I haven't lost my mind, I know exactly where I left it."................
- |> Doug Tooley 3B Co-Op CS student at U of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- |> djtooley@{descartes|napier|cayley}.uwaterloo.ca
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- You should have put in arj 2.39a also. I think it's compression is improved
- over arj 2.30, and it wouldn't need to get much better to beat zip -ex
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