Re: AutoArk

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
: In article <1993Jan8.055606.10289@nuscc.nus.sg> ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:
: >                          The compression and decompression takes up a
: >lot of time, and I don't think this is the fault of AA.
: 
: Wrong.

Why? Please tell me more about it. I am very interested. 
 
: >Worse, compressing is not done only once. When you open a file, AA will
: >EXPAND it. Upon quitting, it will COMPRESS it again.
: 
: HP doesn't put you through this.  In fact, HP works just fine with
: write-protected disks.

What does HP actually do? Expand the file only in memory (like what I always
thought AA did before I bought it)?

How fast is HP?

: >                        Perhaps now somebody can do a review on
: >HardPressed?
: 
: HP's in beta now.  I have to add some changes to the UI, but that's about it.
: As far as I know there are only a couple of people who have seen them
: side-by-side, but their opinions are biased already.

So you are the principle programmer of HP? Wow.

What other features do HP have?

: Random numbers:
:     - MODs were compressing by 20% (went from 11.9MB to 9.4MB)
:     - TrueType fonts were compressing by 25%

I think AA performs better than these (in case of MOD songs... am I right,
DOTW?)

: -- 
: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
: [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]

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