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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: INFO-ZIP congretulations!
- Message-ID: <3040@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 14:01:29 GMT
- References: <3039@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
- Lines: 18
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- I wrote:
-
- >...
- >For the freaks and those wanting to know. The max compression mode gets
- >almost the same ratio (on MS-DOS machine) as PKZIP 1.93a. And almost
- >means 0.5% worse. The speed is quite reasonable. And free, sources
-
- I have been wrong here. Compression seems to be between 0.1% better and
- 0.2% worse on average (depending on file type and characteristics). The
- compression speed of the tigtest mode seems to be about 20% slower
- than PKZIP 1.93a which is very impressive. Even more than at first sight.
-
- Nico E. de Vries
- _ _
- O O USENET nevries@cc.ruu.nl FIDO 2:281/708.1 COMPUSERVE "soon" ????
- o This text reflects MY opinions, not that of my employer BITECH.
- \_/ This text is supplied 'AS IS', no waranties of any kind apply.
- Don't waste your time on complaining about my hopeless typostyle.
-