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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: PGP 2.1 and HPACK 0.78 for OS/2
- References: <724878535rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> <NsV4VB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:33:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.083341.23807@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <NsV4VB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
- >rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >
- >> In article <bontchev.724672014@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.d
- >> >My impression is that it is so slow only if you are using encryption,
- >> >especially public-key encryption. If you do only archiving, it is just
- >> >moderately slow... :-)
- >>
- >> Archiving some text files it took about 2.1 seconds with 32-bit zip
- >> 1.9 and about 9.4 seconds with HPACK 0.78 (also 32-bit). That's a
- >> factor of four to five. Not a problem with OS/2 (put it in the
- >> background) unless you want to archive, say, gcc-2.3.2.tar or
- >> something of similar size. :-)
- >
- >where can one get PGP21 and HPACK for os/2?
-
- On ftp.uni-erlangen.de, directory pub/pc/os2/fauern/crypt.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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