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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.
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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.

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