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- From: schultp@wl.com (Paul Schultz)
- Subject: Re: Hard drive compression etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.042829.4050@wl.com>
- Organization: Warner Lambert / Parke-Davis
- References: <oyysTB2w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <uerics.721074830@mcl>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:28:29 GMT
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- In article <uerics.721074830@mcl> uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:
- >I don't think you should have to do any partitioning -- that would be a
- >stupid requirement, I think.
- >
- >I would like to know how long these two programs, AutoArc and HardPressed,
- >take to do their thing. How sloooowwww does it get to access your
- >compressed files?
- >
- >- Eric S.
- >
- >--
- >Eric D. Shepherd | Apple II Alliance Charter Member
- >InterNet: uerics@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu | ACM Member
- >FidoNet: 1:206/2713 Eric Shepherd | Programming Law #1: "When in
- >AOL: Sheppy | doubt, rewrite from scratch."
-
- I called Econ a month or two ago and asked about AutoArc. I was told
- that there are different compression algorithms that can be used. Sone
- of which will compress more efficiently than others but will also take
- a little longer than others to decompress. The strategy will be to
- choose the most efficient compression algorithm for files which are used
- infrequently and the less efficient but "speedier" algorithms for the
- more frequently used files. I am assuming that you can set the
- compression method for certain filetypes. But, they didn't go into
- much greater detail than what I have told you.
-
- Oh yeah, they did say that they were trying to "finish" it up for
- Apple Expo - East. Since I haven't heard anything I guess they didn't
- make their deadline!! (Surprise, surprise!!!)
-
- Paul Schultz
- schultp@wl.com
-
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