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- From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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- Subject: Re: lha vs compress (use zip instead)
- Date: 20 Dec 1992 15:18:12 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- >> pkzip is better then lharc, but generally not better then lha. (make
-
- Actually, I was referring to zip (a free, portable program in source), vs.
- pkzip (a shareware executable for MSDOS). However, both pkzip 1.93a and
- zip 1.9 consistently compress better than lha.
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- >> I tend to use lha/lharc because I can run it on my Amiga, PC's, AND my
- >> NeXT box.
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- zip 1.9 and unzip 5.0 compile and run on virtually any Unix machine (NeXT
- included--zip was originally developed on a NeXT), MSDOS, OS/2, Windows/NT,
- Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, VMS, and maybe some others I'm forgetting. And it
- is compatible with pkzip and pkunzip on MSDOS.
-
- Mark Adler
- madler@cco.caltech.edu
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