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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: PKWARE AND ASI AGREEMENT
- Message-ID: <3049@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 07:26:54 GMT
- References: <1467.1021.uupcb@meaddata.com> <1992Sep8.153242.6290@wuecl.wustl.edu> <3048@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <1992Sep8.215356.12159@riacs.edu>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- >Greg Roelofs wrote
- >>I Wrote:
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- >>Not true. There is a free alternative in INFO-ZIP. This package is PKZIP
- >>compatible. Nearly as good and free of charges.
- >Better in some respects! :-)
- >[multi-platform, for one; has utilities not included with PKZIP; source
- >available; supported by really great folks; etc.]
-
- Correct, I should have named more details. Looking at ratio and speed
- (IMO the most interesting properties) than the RATIO is about equal,
- the speed is about 20% slower. Notice that recompilation with BC++ 3.1
- makes the program about 12% faster narowing the gap even more. Looking
- at options and features etc INFO-Zip seems to outperform PKZIP.
-
- >Greg Roelofs
- >Info-ZIP guy ;-)
-
- Nico E. de Vries
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- MS-DOS + DR-DOS + X-DOS + Geoworks + Windows + Windows NT + OS/2 2.0 +
- DesqView/X + Solaris + Interactive UNIX + multiuser DOS + NextStep = confusion
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