c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) (04/22/91)
Archive-name: compression/arj/arj/1991-04-20 Archive: wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/arc-lbr/arj200.exe [128.252.135.4] Original-posting-by: c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) Original-subject: Re: ARJ 2.0 Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991Apr19.200436.14936@en.ecn.purdue.edu> chuangss@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shyne Song Chuang) writes: >Hi there, >Just wanted to let you guys know that there's a new version of ARJ that's >out. Version 2 is *supposed* to compress as well as LHA 2.1x (gives perhaps >the best compression around) AND is supposed to compress as fast as PKZIP! >If any of you know an ftp site where it can be found, please mention it. >I got my copy of ARJ 2.0 from Delphi. >As usual, I haven't had time to test ARJ, so correct me if I'm wrong... But >that's what I read in the .doc file. ARJ 2.00 is available on simtel under pd1:<msdos.arc-lbr>arj200.exe. I ran some crude tests using 11 binary files and 11 text files. Here are my results. All times in seconds of course ;-) Binary data - 11 misc. EXE files (358,783 bytes). Compression time Compressed size Decompression time LHa 2.12 1:44.89 244,226 42.74 ARJ 2.00 1:27.74 243,498 44.50 PKZIP 1.1 1:00.05 251,433 22.25 Text data - 11 misc straight ASCII files (247,669 bytes). Compression time Compressed size Decompression time LHa 2.12 1:15.98 88,193 24.12 ARJ 2.00 1:00.54 85,859 26.37 PKZIP 1.1 48.84 92,057 17.91 Considering ARJ 1.10 sucked (flames >/dev/null), this is a tremendous improvement. Phil Katz is the only one that hasn't released a new version of ZIP, but I'm sure that's in the works. -- +==========================================================================+ | Noam Mendelson ..!ucbvax!web!c60b-1eq | "I haven't lost my mind, | | c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU | it's backed up on tape | | University of California at Berkeley | somewhere." | -- comp.archives file verification wuarchive.wustl.edu -rw-r--r-- 1 20002 archive 186273 Apr 15 19:00 /mirrors/msdos/arc-lbr/arj200.exe found arj ok wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/arc-lbr/arj200.exe