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echo: arj
to: LARS WIGRELL
from: CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS
date: 1996-11-01 21:00:00
subject: NOTHING COMPARES TO JAR ?

-=> Quoting Lars Wigrell to All <=-
 > 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).
JAR  is  intended  for  fast  machines  with  a lot of memory.  I
compressed an old copy of the FidoNet nodelist using this command
line: JAR32 a -m4 nodelist.jar
JAR took approximately 3 minutes  to compress it on my Pentium-75
with 16 megabytes of RAM.
... !enif tsuj si gnihtyrevE
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