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From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files
Keywords: lzw, atob/btoa, 7 bit pure
Message-ID: <6679@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 88 14:41:34 GMT
References:   <6630@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <2736@uoregon.uoregon.edu> <8475@smoke.ARPA> <2594@csccat.UUCP> <424@pigs.UUCP> <6583@dasys1.UUCP> <12229@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Independent Users Guild
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If you have a bunch of relatively small files, you may see an aggregate
improvement in raw compression numbers by the LQR method, since you are
spending less room on the overhead of the individual dictionaries and the
library VTOC itself; however, what you sacrifice in terms of flexibility
of access makes it manifestly not worth it as a packing and distribution
method.  Not that it was easy to get this thru folks' heads in the old
days... :-)
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