Message-Id: <199611110554.SAA02723@papaioea.manawatu.gen.nz>
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From: "Malcolm Taylor" <malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>
Organization: Grafik Software
To: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:53:10 +1200
Subject: Re: Why not to use 'tar' before packing DJGPP?
Reply-to: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

> On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Malcolm Taylor wrote:
> > I wrote RKIVE so I'm a little biased, but compared with zip it is 
> > slow. It does use some fairly sofisticated algorithms, actually 
> > modern variants of PPM (PPMZ) and some modified string matching. ACB 
> > is about the best known archiver (in compression terms) but it is 
> > best run on a Pentium as it is around 2x slower than RKIVE. JAR is a 
> > new archiver (still in beta) by the author of ARJ. It has better 
> > compression than RAR and is faster.
> [...]
> One question: is the source code for ANY of these slam-bang new archivers
> available? I use UNIX most of the time, and I'm concerned about
> compatibility because most everyone under UNIX uses GZIP or COMPRESS. One
> good thing though is that you don't have *much* of a memory problem with
> "typical" UNIX workstations.

No. For this reason I'm just now writing an archiver which will have 
free source. It won't quite reach the level of some of the best, but 
it should do much better than PKzip and not take too much longer.

Malcolm