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- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: lha vs compress
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- Message-ID: <dillon.0t0e@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 12:38:42 PST
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- I'm sure this has been hashed out before, but I would like to point out
- to anyone who is having disk-space problems that unix 'lha' (of lharc
- fame) does a hellofabetter job compressing stuff the compress.
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- For example, the meat of the gcc distribution on sonata is 3178496
- bytes compressed, 2183101 bytes lha'd. (uncompressed/unlha'd is
- 6303744).
-
- The downside is that compress runs much faster then lha, but generally
- people are concerned more about space utilization for archives. Most
- microcomputer users use lha now a days.
-
- -Matt
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