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On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 9:45:38 a.m. EDT, Dan Gahlinger
<dgahling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
example: xz is much better at compression, but it can be horrifically slow at
higher settings.gzip/bzip2 (or plain rar or zip) are best general use. fast,
and decent compression.
There's a reason everyone uses them.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:30 AM Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Assuming it is the tool found on www.data-compression.info, then I would say
the reasons are: It's slow (comparisons appear to show gzip is usually 4 times
faster while compressing better), the license (it seems only allowed to be used
for research and academic use), and windows only (written in Delphi, and talks
about tests being run on Windows 2000).
So really, it has nothing going for it. Anything else that is commonly used
like gzip, lzma, etc, are all faster and better at compressing, have more
flexible licenses and run on more platforms. Being better than pkzip doesn't
make something interesting at all. Even at the time it was developed, gzip was
already better than it in just about all use cases.
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 09:16, marlon schmitt <marlon.schmitt88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I would like to enlighten you all with a little knowledge. About 20 years ago,
I was trying out different file compression utilities to see which was the
best.I found a utility called abc which could compress files to a very small
size. It was even better than zip, and could compress text, spreadsheet,
picture and program files with no loss in quality.I don't know why everybody
isn't using abc now. You could bundle different files together in an abc file
and it would download and upload very quickly. What do you think?
P.S. What is the difference between torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and
torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Cheers,Marlon S.
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Len
