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- From: drinnen@deakin.edu.au (Philip Shead)
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- Subject: Re: Which compressors under Unix?
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 09:30:34 -0600
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- In article <1993Jan28.112443.7931@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.202444.19378@opus40.ix.de> hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz) writes:
- >>I found some of PC-world's compressors for Unix (LHA, GZIP).
- >>Are there already any other compressors ported to Unix? Where
- >>can I get them?
- >
- > 125879 Nov 23 11:38 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/arcers/arc.tar.Z
- > 667464 Dec 5 16:43 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/arcers/hpack78src.tar.Z
- ^^^^^^ The first thing that struck me about this is the
- very large size of the code in comparison with lha, 7 times in fact.
-
- Is this a factor in hpack greater (I'm lead to believe) compression
- or does it implemented a few methods of compression, because I notice
- the combined info-zip programs are much larger. This is another factor
- in my preference for lha. It comes in one small package of course.
-
- I'll get the hpack source code and have a look, to see what the difference
- is. I've decided to have a look at the dos version and you never know
- I may switch to it although it will have to be pretty persuasive.
-
- > 96999 Jan 11 07:24 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/arcers/lha101u.tar.Z
- > 35321 Nov 23 11:38 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/arcers/unarj230.tar.Z
- I would love to see a unix version of arj.
- > 299288 Jan 15 08:42 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/arcers/unz50p1.tar.Z
- > 186591 Nov 23 11:38 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/arcers/zip10ex.tar.Z
- > 244565 Nov 23 11:38 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/arcers/zip19p1.tar.Z
- > 237093 Nov 23 11:38 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/arcers/zoo210.tar.Z
- Too slow and poor compression from zoo.
-