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- From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber)
- Subject: Re: INFO-ZIP congretulations!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.140817.21201@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 14:08:17 GMT
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- In article <3040@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
- >
- >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
-
- And it feels very fast if you don't use -9 maximum compression.
-
- The only thing that doesn't work in ms-dog is funzip, and
- probably very few people would care, anyway. But the funzip that
- came with zip19p1x.zip either locks or reboots my machine. (Maybe
- this is their idea of fun :-)
-
- Interesting new way of storing directories.
-
- Anyway. Very very good work.
-
- Glauber
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- Glauber Ribeiro - Wheaton College, IL (USA)
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