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- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: DELETE PROTECTION AND FILE FIX UNDER ON-THE-FLY COMPRESSION
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.154250.13742@rei.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:42:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.172604.29703@ncsu.edu> <169b62INNemt@agate.berkeley.edu> <2984@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <16he2oINNks4@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- bho@ocf.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho) writes:
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- >The question I would like answered is if Stacker's scheme is inherently
- >worse than the prevalent zip, arj, lzh schemes.
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- In most cases, yes. Archivers like ZIP and ARJ perform global
- compression over the entire length of the file. Disk compressors like
- Stacker only look at clusters (usually 8K) of the file at a time, since
- they are emulating a disk drive with potentially random access.
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