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Re: Replacement for Shrinkit
- To: rnews@crash.cts.com
- Subject: Re: Replacement for Shrinkit
- From: pro-newton!pro-dan!danb (Dan Brown)
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 07:59:17 GMT
- In-reply-to: ek361@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Auri Rahimzadeh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: ProLine [pro-dan] -- Hesperia, CA
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ek361@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Auri Rahimzadeh) writes:
>Well, now that we have the Hardpressed RunTime with LZSS, why don't we just
>use that? It has much better compression, and it's faster. Only thing is
>that you can't compress disks with it, oh well....
There are two major problems. First, HPRT doesn't compress; it only
decompresses. Second, HardPressed doesn't save filetype and other info
necessary to be a good archive format. Third (bonus), HP doesn't have a
provision for archiving several files into one.
--
Dan Brown
danb%pro-dan@pro-newton.cts.com