Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/10/17:57:22
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> IMHO, better compression ratios is not always good enough reason to switch
> to another compressor. Do we really think everybody out there (GNU sites,
> SimTel sites) are so stupid in that they continue using this ``old''
> compression technology? Do savings in disk storage (which is about the
> cheapest asset nowadays) indeed justify turning our back on compatibility?
> I'm not sure.
You're absolutely right. But the point is that the algorithm used by
PKZIP/ZIP may be improved and modernized so that it'll give better
results whilestill being compatible with all the tools around. The two
mentioned compressors just do not take advantage of all opportunities to
improve the compression.
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