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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!upchrch!joel
- From: joel@upchrch.UUCP (Joel Upchurch )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: stacker 3
- Message-ID: <Rq2HuB2w164w@upchrch.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 13:40:50 EST
- References: <SKNKWRKS.92Nov18111656@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>
- Organization: Upchurch Computer Consulting, Orlando FL
- Lines: 16
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- sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
-
- > I thought it was interesting that ZIP files could be further packed.
- > Most of the ZIPs on my system are sampled sounds and MODs...files that
- > aren't easily packed to begin with. Then again, PKZIP isn't exactly
- > the best file packer in the world...it's only the most common.
-
- Any compression you see on ZIP files is probably because Stacker can
- store multiple files in the same block and not leave any waste space
- at the end of the block. When you see 16:1 data compression reported
- for stacker it is usually for tiny batch files and such that leave a
- lot of wasted space in a block.
-
- (If your mail bounces use the address below.)
- Joel Upchurch/Upchurch Computer Consulting/718 Galsworthy/Orlando, FL 32809
- joel@peora.ccur.com {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd,ucf-cs}!peora!joel (407) 859-0982
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