From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) Subject: Re: Why ZIP/UNZIP slower than DOS version? Date: 1 Aug 1992 02:01:12 GMT
In article <1992Jul31.050921.19572@athena.mit.edu> chchen@stat.fsu.edu writes:
>I am using the zip/unzip binaries from tsx-11(or banjo?). The zipping
>/unzipping speed is far slower than the pkzip/pkunzip DOS version,
>especially for large files (>= 100k). Anyone has the same problem?
>
>BTW, a little warning. I used a shareware program called zipsplit
>to split zip file made by Linux zip in DOS and when I wanted to
>unzip the sub-zipped files in Linux, the unzip won't do it.
>
>Steve Chen
We shouldn't be comparing DOS and Linux here, but the DOS version is
probably written in assembly language while the Linux version was probably
written in C. Also, DOS is a single-user, single-tasking operating
system. You're comparing oranges and bananas. :) If you want to try
something really neat, try it in MS Windows with a few background processes
running!
-- Jim H. * * James L. Henrickson ujlh@sunyit.edu * "Yet another Jim in the Linux world." :-)