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In article <1992Nov18.164356.16392@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Cliff Chen) writes:
>In article <SKNKWRKS.92Nov17192505@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>>By tuning v3.0 to emphasize compression over speed, they say you can
>>get about 10% better compression.  Overall speed is supposed to be
>>about 25% better.  I just won a copy at COMDEX today...I'll have a
>>chance to play with it a bit. :-) (Don't know how much extra space
>>it'll create on a drive full of ZIPs, GIFs, etc.)

Speaking of which...Stacker is now installed on my system, where it
yielded an overall compression of about 1.2:1.  About 100 megs of the
drive's contents are made of ZIPs (1.1:1), ARJs (1:1), GIFs (1:1),
JPGs (1:1), and BXYs (1.1:1--BXY is an Apple II archive format based
on LZW).  SQD files (Squish data) for my BBS's message areas packed by
about 2:1.  EXEs went to about 1.5:1.  Some filetypes packed by up to
16:1.  I've taken a bit of a speed hit, but that would be expected on
a 286-12, don't'cha think? :-) I'm gonna try reinstalling Super
PC-Kwik and see if that gets speed back up to snuff...and if it means
I have to kill SRE (Solar Realms Elite, a doorgame), then so be it.

>  Well, I'm wondering if Stac has copied Superstor 3.0 and included
>JPEG image compression into their software.  Now, while this is nice if you
>want compressed images at a quality LOSS, I personally am not willing to
>sacrifice quality for disk space.  For those who have either Stacker of
>Superstor, can you turn off the JPEG image compression?  I mean, if I
>wanted JPEGs then I would have converted my GIFs myself.

So far as I know, Stacker doesn't have built-in JPEG compression.  I
wouldn't have much use for it even if it was built-in; most files on
my hard drive are compressed by other means to save download time.

I thought it was interesting that ZIP files could be further packed.
Most of the ZIPs on my system are sampled sounds and MODs...files that
aren't easily packed to begin with.  Then again, PKZIP isn't exactly
the best file packer in the world...it's only the most common.

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