Re: Squash CORRECTION and question (was: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold)

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From: Mark Adler
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 06:34

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>> Actually, there is a beta version of Zip that beats Squash by quite a bit.   
>> I used it to zip up ModPlayer and it was about 5K smaller than the  
>> ModPlayer.app.squfold file.  Which I thought was pretty impressive  

I found a file or two that even the old zip beat Squash on, but that was
an oddity.  I expect Squash to beat the new zip most of the time.  Zip
was written to be fast and have good compression.  Squash was written
to be slow, use a lot of memory, and get the best possible compression
using known techniques.

There are also public domain compressors that use similar techniques
to Squash, and are slower and compress better, consistently, than
Squash.

Squash has the advantage however of being a well thought out NeXTstep
GUI application.

>> I'm not sure however when it'll be released for general use, so I can't  

In about a week and a half.

Mark Adler
madler@tybalt.caltech.edu

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