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- LhArcA V1.02
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- Released 15-Jan-92
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- Written by Stefan Boberg 1990
- Minor updates 14-Dec-91, 15-Jan-92
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- This is a minor update from LhArcA 0.99, LhArcA 1.00 was never released
- to the public, but I decided to release this version anyway.. This program
- is now FREEWARE - meaning, use and abuse as you wish, I don't want any
- money for it. However, I still hold the copyright, and no one may make any
- profits out of this.
-
- The program is pretty much self-explaining I hope, and this
- `documentation file' just contains some info about the status of this
- release. I do not support this program in any way, thus no updates will
- be made after this release - I will continue development on my other
- archivers however, so if you use archivers a lot, please consider
- registering for LhA/LhI - they're cheap and well worth the money.
-
- Source for this program will not be released because they are not quite
- fit for public distribution (not very pretty or structured..).
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- Notez bien: The compression and decompression routines used in
- this program are *not* the same as used in my new archivers, LhA and LhI.
- The routines of these two programs are *MUCH* faster, and they also offer
- greater compression ratios. LhArcA does NOT handle the new -lh5-
- compression, while LhI and LhA does. -lh5- is a new compression method
- that is much more efficient than -lh1- (the one used in LhArc and LhArcA),
- and is also faster. Everything in this program was essentially written in
- 1990, and I have not touched it since July 1990, except for today, when I
- tidied the program up a bit and changed some minor things.
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- Even though the decompression routines of LhArcA are not the fastest
- available, they are much faster than those of LZ (some tests I made right
- now show that LhArcA is more than 50% faster than LZ on some files!).
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- Here follows a brief list of LhA and LhI's features, there's a lot to be
- said about these programs (the manual for LhA alone is over 50 pages!!),
- so these are just a few of the good points..
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- o Handles -lh1- and -lh5- compression, with the greatest speed currently
- available on the Commodore Amiga. Decompression is more than twice as
- fast as LZ 1.92 (more than 3 times the speed of LhArcA), and compression
- is 2-4 times faster than LZ 1.92 (more than 6 times the speed of
- LhArcA).
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- o LhA is reliable, compact, multitasking reentrant and pure. It offers a
- multitude of options not available on any other archiver, like multi-
- volume archives, archive repairing, splitting, joining, and more..
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- o LhI is an easy-to-use fully Intuition-driven archiver with the same
- compression and decompression capabilities as LhA, it is 100% compatible
- with LZ, LhArcA, LhA, LHA (MSDOS), and LhArc. It is also a very powerful
- disk utility for moving, copying, formatting etc. It is not yet available
- but under development.
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- o LhI has a very powerful ARexx server mode.
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- o LhI has all the commands and options of LhA, plus more.
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- o Both LhA and LhI has superior error-detection, handling and recovery not
- offered by any other product for the Commodore-Amiga computer, the
- author will continue updating and enhancing these products as long as he
- gets support by the users (i.e. users register). It's my goal to produce
- THE archivers for the Commodore-Amiga, and right now there are no rivals
- that even comes close in terms of compression speed and performance.
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- Ok, that's all for now, hope you find LhArcA useful. If you have any
- questions about the new LhI and LhA, feel free to contact me at any of the
- following addresses:
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- Stefan Boberg Summertime: Stefan Boberg
- Rydsv. 242 A:25 Tynne Bj÷rke
- S-58251 Link÷ping S-62023 Romakloster
- SWEDEN SWEDEN
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- Email: Internet: boberg@lysator.liu.se
- -||- stefan_boberg@augs.se
- FIDO: "Stefan Boberg" at 2:204/404.0
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