Subj : Re: Sorry and bad news.
To : Chris Hoppman
From : Scott Adams
Date : Thu Dec 12 2002 03:48 pm
-=> Quoting Chris Hoppman to Scott Adams <=-
SA> I've also done simliar tests with the above. It
SA> really depends on what you comparess. Obviously
SA> files of nothing but text compress differently for
SA> each than say exes and dll files for example. I
SA> didn't see that much difference. I still use zip
SA> mostly but occasiuonally will use ARJ when it
SA> does better compression.
CH> Now, that you meantion it. It was mainly on .txt files, but when I
CH> convertted my entired file base on my board. It saved me 5 mb which
CH> with this 80 gig hd it didn't mader. Also, just wantted to say I also
CH> mainly use Zip cause all most of the fileshare networks use that
CH> format, but use rar when I am getting stuff of the newsgroups.
CH> What ever it is. It is just handy to have a bunch ready to use.
Yep. Could never get into Rar or Tar and all that but
I'll use it if I have to. I had my Arj period for
sure and thought it was cool but then came back to zip.
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