Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:806 comp.sys.ibm.pc:18241 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!mailrus!ames!necntc!dandelion!ulowell!boneill From: boneill@swan.ulowell.edu (Brian O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Compression Standard (Current standings) Message-ID: <8694@swan.ulowell.edu> Date: 20 Aug 88 19:52:52 GMT Reply-To: boneill@swan.ulowell.edu (Brian O'Neill) Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 19 Here are the standings as of Aug. 20... ZOO 106 PK 44 ARC 24 Shar-Compress 2 Tar-Compress 1 "earthpig" 1 * * "earthpig" is Tracy Tims archiver. Someone voted for it, and he sent me the info. It sounds good. It's not a compression archiver, but rather a text archiver. Binary files are encoded with roughly 1:1.1 sizewise, and creates a file which normal LZW compression can do well on. Unfortunately, it isn't complete. ============================================================================ Brian O'Neill, MS-DOS Software Exchange ArpaNet: boneill@swan.ulowell.edu UUCP : {(backbones),harvard,mit-eddie,et. al.}!ulowell!boneill