From: Mark W. Eichin (eichin@athena.mit.edu)
Date: 10/14/92 

From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
Subject: Re: Use of zip instead of compress
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:20:13 GMT

>> freeze (drop-in replacement for compress, though not compatible. A
>> little on the slow side.)
        The latest version, particularly with arguments -g -g, is much
faster than older ones (still about 1/2 speed of compress, but that's
pretty good.) Uncompression is actually fast... and freeze always does
*at least* as well as compress, often producing files that are 1/2 the
size compress does...
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