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I wrote:

>...
>For the freaks and those wanting to know. The max compression mode gets
>almost the same ratio (on MS-DOS machine) as PKZIP 1.93a. And almost
>means 0.5% worse. The speed is quite reasonable. And free, sources

I have been wrong here. Compression seems to be between 0.1% better and
0.2% worse on average (depending on file type and characteristics). The
compression speed of the tigtest mode seems to be about 20% slower
than PKZIP 1.93a which is very impressive. Even more than at first sight.

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I agree.  Maybe we should use INFO-ZIP as a standard instead of
pkzip.   I would sure use zip 2.0 before I would ever worry about
compatiblitly with pkzip 2.0.

Especially since I'll probably never see it.

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In article <3040@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
>
>I have been wrong here. Compression seems to be between 0.1% better and
>0.2% worse on average (depending on file type and characteristics). The
>compression speed of the tigtest mode seems to be about 20% slower
>than PKZIP 1.93a which is very impressive. Even more than at first sight.
>
>Nico E. de Vries

And it feels very fast if you don't use -9 maximum compression.

The only thing that doesn't work in ms-dog is funzip, and
probably very few people would care, anyway. But the funzip that
came with zip19p1x.zip either locks or reboots my machine. (Maybe
this is their idea of fun :-)

Interesting new way of storing directories.

Anyway. Very very good work.

					Glauber
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gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) writes about zip 1.9/unzip 5.0:

> The only thing that doesn't work in ms-dog is funzip, and
> probably very few people would care, anyway. But the funzip that
> came with zip19p1x.zip either locks or reboots my machine.

There is *no* funzip in zip19p1x.zip. If you have a copy with one in
it, please delete it and get a correct version of zip19p1x.zip from a
trustable ftp site such simtel and any of its mirrors, or garbo in
Europe.  (See comp.compression FAQ for details.) funzip is only
distributed in source form in unzip50.zip or unzip50.tar.Z.

funzip is almost useless on MSDOS, which does not have true pipes.
This is why it was not included in the MSDOS makefiles and never
released as an MSDOS .exe file. We should have put a big warning that
funzip was not supported on MSDOS, sorry. We will do our best to
support it for MSDOS in the next version of unzip (even though
it's not very useful there).

Jean-loup Gailly
info-zip guy

PS: thanks for the congratulations. They are appreciated.

Glauber writes:
>I wrote :
>>
>>compression speed of the tigtest mode seems to be about 20% slower
>>than PKZIP 1.93a which is very impressive. Even more than at first sight.

>And it feels very fast if you don't use -9 maximum compression.

Notice that the ZIP default mode is about 50% slower than the PKZIP
default mode, a weak comparission since ZIP does compress better
in default mode. The ZIP default mode has about the same speed as
the PKZIP 1.93a -EX mode.

>Anyway. Very very good work.

Yes, Info-ZIP is great work.

>					Glauber

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