Re: [WinMac] For Leonard....waaaaaaaay OT

From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 14:11:41 PST

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At 1:56 PM -0500 1/17/01, Welch, John C. wrote:
>Leonard, I have someone saying that gzip and stuffit use the same
>algorithms...is this correct?
>
Nope, that is FAR from correct! Whoever said that was dreaming.

gzip and ZIP use the same algorithm (as you might suspect,
given the names and shared file format ;), but StuffIt uses a
proprietary algorithm written by Aladdin's "compression guru". It
gets MUCH better compression at faster speeds.

Leonard

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