Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:03:08 +0000
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Smaller distribution archives
To: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz
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        Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Malcolm Taylor wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>         I've just finished writing the compression routines for a new free
> archiver (still got the archiving bits to go). I'm going to distribute the
> sources in the hope that they can be ported to a few different
> operating systems in the spirit of Info-Zip. Here are some figures of
> the compression gained on some of the v2.0 distribution archives
> (haven't got v2.01 yet).
>                 zip                     new
> lgp271b 633,570         346,896
> txi360b 550,850         408,921
> djlsr200        1,214,480       555,716
> djdev200        1,121,916       652,589
> mak373b 196,928         164,776
> gcc272b 1,070,665       859,981
> bnu252b 1,257,436       543,677
> gdb412b 454,984         400,411
> total           6,500,829       3,932,967
> 

Gulp! And we all know zip did a reasonable job!

> Now for a few questions. What should I call it? This may sound like a
> trivial thing (it is really :), but I don't have any ideas. Anyone
> want to help with porting efforts?

How about mtsquish?

> 
> Thanks,
> Malcolm

Bill
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