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From: spcecdt@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Space Cadet)
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Subject: Re: PK361.EXE
Summary: good idea
Keywords: PKARC ZOO
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Date: 10 Aug 88 05:01:04 GMT
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In article <356@marob.MASA.COM> manes@marob.MASA.COM (Steve Manes) writes:
>Better, let Phil adopt Rahul's internal structure.  Fact is, while Rahul

	I think that's a very good idea.  The only reason I prefer PK*** over
ZOO is that PK*** is, in my experience, about twice as fast.  The files
are also better compressed, but the difference is not nearly so dramatic.
Since the algorithms are basically the same, it would seem that the fast
code Phil wrote could be applied to a version of ZOO, if not the better
compression.  The internal structure of ZOO is certainly much better; it
would be nice to have the best of both worlds.
	Too bad that such an adoption is probably wishful thinking.  Maybe
someone else will speed ZOO up?  It would certainly build support...

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