zu@ethz.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen) (07/23/87)
Hi Netlanders, I followed the discussion concerning Arc and Pkarc. Usually I use Pkarc because it's faster. But I patched it to use only the compression algorythms which are compatible to SEA's arc. The other day some kind soul posted zoo 1.50 to the net. Well, let's compare it to Arc and Pkarc. I archived the same files with Zoo and Pkarc (version 3.5). I didn't measure speed. but my feelings tell me that Pkarc is faster (no guarantee). The archive made by Pkarc in the compatibility mode was about 8% smaller. Let's go ahaed and build an archive with squashing enabled. I really was surprised. All the files were squashed and the archive was ONLY 1% SMALLER than the zoo-archive. What's going on here? Why didn't Pkarc change the compression algorythm and use squeeze on some of the files, for example?. The verbose listing showed it to be more efficient. ...urs UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!zu BITNET: K261819 @ CZHRZU1A