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At Simtel20.arpa, there is a file that compares(tests) out all the
popular compression programs for PCs(ARC, ZOO, ZIP, and more) with
different input(GIF, text-only, executables) and ranks them with
respect to % compression and speed. Its an arc'd text file,
see pd:<msdos.arc-lbr>compres8.arc, which gives the tables of data,
and normalized ratings as well.

I thought it was known that GIF files are LZW compressed(thats part of the
GIF format.), therefore its curious to see that anyone would try compressing
a compressed file. I would guess that the only extra compression might be a
small amount by doing a huffman encoding on the GIF file, but doing a second
pass with LZW would be fruitless(see those tables, none of the compressors
even dented a GIF file, some even increased in size after compression.)

Eric Romo