petechen@porthos.rutgers.edu (Peter Chen) (04/24/91)
Hi, I would like to hear about what people think of the following compression utilities: Stuffit Deluxe DiskDoubler CompactorPro in term of: 1. What does the package include: init, cdev, application? 2. Does the package provide compression and decompression on the fly, i.e., opening a compressed file from another application, and the file automatically gets decompressed. (This probably have direct correlation with whether an init is included.) 3. Can the package produce self-extracting files? 4. Compression speed/compression ratio trade-off 5. Other extra capabilities After some preliminary research, my impression is that all these three packages come in the form of applications. If I recall correctly, DiskDoubler also includes an init which allows you to compress files on the fly. In all cases, all replies are welcome. Thanks in advance. PeteChen petechen@cs.rutgers.edu Microcomputer Resource Center Rutgers University
pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (04/25/91)
Check out TidBITS#42/Compression - available in the digest subdir at sumex and in the TidBITS subdir at rascal.ics.utexas.edu via FTP. Ken Hancock and I did a comparison of them. We're probably doing another issue on the subject relatively soon that will include the forthcoming SuperDisk! and the new DiskDoubler (due in early June). cheers ... Adam In article <Apr.24.07.36.07.1991.15239@porthos.rutgers.edu>, petechen@porthos.rutgers.edu (Peter Chen) writes: > Hi, > I would like to hear about what people think of the following > compression utilities: > Stuffit Deluxe > DiskDoubler > CompactorPro > in term of: > > 1. What does the package include: init, cdev, application? > 2. Does the package provide compression and decompression on the fly, > i.e., opening a compressed file from another application, and the > file automatically gets decompressed. (This probably have direct > correlation with whether an init is included.) > 3. Can the package produce self-extracting files? > 4. Compression speed/compression ratio trade-off > 5. Other extra capabilities > > After some preliminary research, my impression is that all these three > packages come in the form of applications. If I recall correctly, > DiskDoubler also includes an init which allows you to compress files on > the fly. > > In all cases, all replies are welcome. Thanks in advance. > > PeteChen > petechen@cs.rutgers.edu > Microcomputer Resource Center > Rutgers University -- Adam C. Engst (best) ace@tidbits.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (also) ace@tidbits.uucp (if all else fails) pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu --------------------------------------------------------------- Editor of TidBITS, the weekly electronic Macintosh news journal