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- From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Subject: Re: Need a tool to 'unzip' files in a Unix environment
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:23:40 GMT
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- David Fox writes
- > Needless to say, there are others to choose from. Take a look at lha
- > and or arj. These typically do a better job than zip.
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- I've not had this experience. My experience has been that zip v1.9
- does a better job (using the -9 option) than lha v1.00; both being run
- on a NeXTSTEP 3.0 machine.
-
- I don't know about the availability of an arj for UNIX, last I checked
- there was none (not even a de-arj'er).
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