tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL) (07/10/87)
In article <131@bernina.UUCP>, zu@ethz.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen) writes: > I don't understand why so many of you are against squashing. It produces > smaller archives, what's so bad about that? I ran multiple tests (reported here about three months ago) of the various "archiving" programs. The test covered several million bytes, of various archive candidates (source code and documentation). *Squashing, at best, only produced 2.3% improvement, normally less than 2.0% improvement* I call that a trivial improvement, and not worth risking creating archives incompatible with UNIX(tm) sites, and those sites running SEA and/or Buerg software. -- Terry Sterkel {clyde|harvard|cbosgd|allegra|ulysses|ihnp4}!whuts!tes [opinions are obviously only my own]