kortink@.cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink) (06/23/91)
I have sent a new application to the Newcastle info server. !PackDir 1.00 (de)archives directories. I wrote it to do selective backups of directories on my harddisk, being terminally frustrated by !Spark's snails pace. !PackDir uses 13-bit LZW compression, resulting in archives that are the same size as !Spark produces with 13-bit 'Compress'. The catch is, it is around 3 to 3.5 times as fast as !Spark. The archives produced are not compatible with !Spark though, and can only be unpacked by !PackDir. As I thought it might be useful to others, I have issued it as PD. Any comments would be appreciated. John Kortink ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Student of Informatics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands NETMAIL : kortink@cs.utwente.nl DISCLAIMER : you know .... "I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context Suzanne Vega ('Language') and beyond all consequences" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------