Hi all,

FYI, we're removing all MOVER packaged files from our software
site.  We finally had one problem too many with it.

We still strongly recommend LZW.

The problem was with our new RAMUSAGE distribution package.
We packaged it with one version (EOF=651), and it can't be
read with another version (EOF=635).  And who *knows* what happens
with any of the other two thousand different versions of MOVER (all of
which have the same !@#$%^ version ID!)

Another benefit: shorter backups.  The MOVER file for RAMUSAGE takes
2640 sectors.  The LZW file takes 1520 sectors.

Package Method    #bytes
--------------    --------

tar & gzip        267595
tar & compress    370365
tar cvfz          370688   (uses the "compress" feature of tar)
LZW               388096
MOVER             671840

The above information, along with CPU & elapsed times used, is at:
http://www.allegro.com/posix/archiving.html  (new chart after the main chart)

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
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