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- From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner)
- Subject: Re: New PKZIP expected to ship week of Jan 4 1993
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 05:06:59 GMT
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- tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
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- >As far back as I can remember, compress/uncompress (producing .Z files)
- >has been the universal standard under Unix. This has worked perfectly
- >well; I never heard anyone complaining. I've no doubt compression
- >could be improved by 1-2% by some complicated maneouvre. But who
- >cares?
-
- If you would stop to investigte the truth of the matter before making
- such proclamations, you'd find that current compression software (such
- as free zip, pkzip 1.93 beta, arj, lha, hpack, zoo in "h" mode, and so
- on) all compress a good 20% better than compress(1) on a wide variety of
- data mixes. Moreover, most of them are faster than compress(1) to boot.
-
- > 99% of the hype about new compression algorithms is unscientific
- > waffle. Their perpetrators should be publicly flogged on prime-time
- > TV.
-
- While your assertions gains over compress(1) not exceeding 2% are
- methodologically impregnable, I suppose?
-
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