On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:08:37 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:43:40 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
>> Hi Thomas and all, >> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 04:04:09 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: >> <snip> >>> ... I don't think RAR (shareware) has reached the >>> mainstream (I hope it doesn't)... >> what's Your problem with RAR? It works nice for me. > I share Thomas' distaste for RAR. > It's big (very) slow (very) and unfriendly (VERY). > The prime point of comparison is PKunzjr: > 2924 bytes. So fast it will take your breath away. > Why should a decompression program need to be 100 times as big ? Yeah.... But not everyone is interested in small, efficient programs. Most users like large, slow inefficient programs. <VBG> As for RAR.... IMO, it's most useful feature is the ability to create mutliple files of "user specified" size. Here are the results of a little test I just ran. --- test-rar.bat --- @echo off time 22:00 cd\ md \!testrar md \!testrar\rar echo start>c:\!testrar\rar\!start.txt rar32 a -v1000 -r c:\!testrar\rar\test-rar c:\1recv\*.* echo end>c:\!testrar\rar\~end.txt md \!testrar\zip echo start>c:\!testrar\zip\!start.txt pkzip -ex -rP c:\!testrar\zip\test-zip c:\1recv\*.* echo end>c:\!testrar\zip\~end.txt call ls.bat -r c:\!testrar\*.*>>c:\!testrar\results.txt time ____________________ --- ls.bat --- sf.exe -lhstwa %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 ______________ --- c:\!testrar\results.txt --- Listing directory: C:\!TESTRAR\ Name mask: *.* Listing directory: C:\!TESTRAR\RAR\ Name mask: *.* !START.TXT 7 10-16-2001 22:00:00 -----A-- TEST-RAR.RAR 1000000 10-16-2001 22:00:08 -----A-- TEST-RAR.R00 1000000 10-16-2001 22:00:18 -----A-- TEST-RAR.R01 1000000 10-16-2001 22:00:26 -----A-- TEST-RAR.R02 454958 10-16-2001 22:00:30 -----A-- ~END.TXT 5 10-16-2001 22:00:30 -----A-- Sub-Directories: 0 3454970 bytes used in 6 files. Listing directory: C:\!TESTRAR\ZIP\ Name mask: *.* !START.TXT 7 10-16-2001 22:00:30 -----A-- TEST-ZIP.ZIP 3454991 10-16-2001 22:00:48 -----A-- ~END.TXT 5 10-16-2001 22:00:48 -----A-- Sub-Directories: 0 3455003 bytes used in 3 files. RESULTS.TXT 0 10-16-2001 22:00:48 -----A-- Sub-Directories: 0 0 bytes used in 1 files. 6909973 bytes used in 10 files in 3 directories. _______________________________ Total file size is almost identical. (the 4 RARs are only 33 bytes smaller that the 1 ZIP) PKZIP was faster than RAR32 (RAR32 = 30 sec ..... PKZIP = 18 sec) However.... PKZIP can't split the file into any size we want. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
