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- From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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- Subject: Re: lha vs compress (use zip instead)
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 19:11:31 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- >> 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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- And zip does better than lha, and is faster. And is far more portable.
- And works as a filter. And lots more. It is on the usual NeXT archive
- sites in both source and compiled forms. It is also on the NeXT
- Educational Sampler CD.
-
- If you want the very best compression, you can pay a quite reasonable
- price and get Squash, which in its high compression mode compresses
- better than zip, but at the cost of being rather a lot slower.
-
- Mark Adler
- madler@cco.caltech.edu
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