Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/12/15:37:49
Malcolm Taylor wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've just finished writing the compression routines for a new free
> archiver (still got the archiving bits to go). I'm going to distribute the
> sources in the hope that they can be ported to a few different
> operating systems in the spirit of Info-Zip. Here are some figures of
> the compression gained on some of the v2.0 distribution archives
> (haven't got v2.01 yet).
> zip new
> lgp271b 633,570 346,896
> txi360b 550,850 408,921
> djlsr200 1,214,480 555,716
> djdev200 1,121,916 652,589
> mak373b 196,928 164,776
> gcc272b 1,070,665 859,981
> bnu252b 1,257,436 543,677
> gdb412b 454,984 400,411
> total 6,500,829 3,932,967
>
Gulp! And we all know zip did a reasonable job!
> Now for a few questions. What should I call it? This may sound like a
> trivial thing (it is really :), but I don't have any ideas. Anyone
> want to help with porting efforts?
How about mtsquish?
>
> Thanks,
> Malcolm
Bill
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