Hello Lars!
 > Well, folks. I just got my hands on JAR v.1.01, and made some tests
 > with it. 
 > I decided to compress the latest FidoNet nodelist (NODELIST.299).
 > Using JAR, it took roughly 29 minutes on my 386SX/16, and the
 > archive size was 983207 bytes (using maximum compression).
This posting and that of others led me to make a couple of test myself.
I used NODELIST.299 and RAR/2 here:
RAR/2 set to maximal compression on my 486 took 6:40 minutes to
compress the NODELIST to 890980...that's over 90k less than jar on
maximal if your numbers are correct and I had 17 active processes
running in the background while I was doing it!
 > Then I checked with ARJ v.2.50. It took less than 4 minutes, and
 > the archive size was 984399. On the same machine.
RAR/2 set to normal compression took 1:00 minute and took the nodelist
down to 922637.  This is 32 bit RAR for OS/2 I am running.
 > Actually I don't think it's really worth waiting another 25 minutes
 > to get a saving of 1192 bytes ;-) Maybe there are some parameters
 > that may need to be optimized in JAR.CFG, but I doubt that it will
 > even come close to good old ARJ at this point.
Neither seem to come close to RAR/2 ;)
Cheers,
Nicky
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