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-Subject: Re: HA 0.98 file archiver
-To: hh@elsofter.sterna.pulp.nullnet.fi (Harri Hirvola)
-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:19:47 +0200 (EET)
-From: ts

> 
> Hello Harri 

Timo this time.

> I have uploaded file ha098.zip to /pc/incoming at garbo.
> 
> File:  ha098.zip 
> One line description:  Very effecient and slow archiver. 
> Author:  Harri Hirvola (hh@elsofter.sterna.pulp.nullnet.fi) 
> Shareware payment required from private users: No 
> Shareware payment required from corporates: No 
> Self documenting: Yes 
> Source included: No 
> Size zipped/original:  28 kB / 28 kB 
> Description:
> First public release of HA file archiver. Current version is 0.98. HA
> needs still some cleaning  before it can be called version 1.0 as it is
> quite (read very) slow and "user interface" is somewhat incomplete an
> inconsistent. While HA is not (yet) a streamlined doitall archiver, it
> can deliver compression rates good enough to make using it worthwhile
> for purposes where data is not frequently repacked. HA 0.98 has two
> compression methods: default method ASC and slower HSC. Compression 
> results for Text Compression corpus are (for comparison total size 
> using ARJ 2.30 with maximum compression switch -jm is 1036934 bytes 
> and without it 1042562 bytes):
>     filename        original    ASC       HSC
>   ===============================================
>     bib             111261      34890     26927  
>     book1           768771      312360    235733 
>     book2           610856      205296    163535 
>     geo             102400      67311     59356  
>     news            377109      143928    123335 
>     obj1            21504       10100     9799   
>     obj2            246814      79714     80381  
>     paper1          53161       18124     15675  
>     paper2          82199       29157     23956  
>     pic             513216      52556     51639  
>     progc           39611       13061     11795  
>     progl           71646       15936     15298  
>     progp           49379       10976     10498  
>     trans           93695       19370     17927  
>   ===============================================
>     14              3141622     1012779   845854
> 
>  	Harri Hirvola 

Thank you for your contribution Harri.  This upload is now available
as
  28606 Jan  7 10:54 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/ha098.zip

Ok, I am biased, but naturally I am particularly pleased to see
program production from fellow Finns.

   All the best, Timo

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