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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DJGPP port of binutils 2.12.1
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:41:08 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "CBFalconer" <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DJGPP port of binutils 2.12.1


> JT Williams wrote:
> >
> > -: This is announcement of DJGPP port of binutils-2.12.1.
> >
> > Impressive size difference; I'm always
> > glad to recover a few MB of disk space :-/
> >
> > % djzip --size 2.11.2-r1/bnu2112b.zip
> >         2.11.2-r1/bnu2112b.zip:   6088008                   65 files
> >
> > % djzip --size 2.12.1/bnu2121b.zip
> >         2.12.1/bnu2121b.zip:   3794728                   73 files
>
> Oh? One of us is wrong.
>

No. I'm not so sure, but its apparent that JT was using a tool thats display
the total size and number of files on comppressed file, not the size of file
itself.

J. L.

> [1] c:\dnld\scratch>sd \djgpp\bnu21*.zip /g /1
>
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--+
> ¦  Filename  ¦ File Size  Clust Used ¦    Date     Time   ¦ Clust
> Sector Attr ¦
>
¦------------+-----------------------+--------------------+-----------------
--¦
> ¦bnu2121b.zip¦ 2,626,068     81  99% ¦ 19-Jun-02 19:00:54 ¦  4A57
> 12B5AC A    ¦
>
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--+
> Path: C:\DJGPP\ZIPSUSED
>
>
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--+
> ¦  Filename  ¦ File Size  Clust Used ¦    Date     Time   ¦ Clust
> Sector Attr ¦
>
¦------------+-----------------------+--------------------+-----------------
--¦
> ¦bnu2112b.zip¦ 2,707,938     83 100% ¦ 15-Jul-01 11:22:06 ¦  DB64
> 36F8EC A    ¦
>
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--+
> Path: C:\DJGPP\ZIPSUSED\OLDZIPS
>
> --
> Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net)
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