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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: Need a tool to 'unzip' files in a Unix environment
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 07:36:04 GMT
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- jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
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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.
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- >I don't know about the availability of an arj for UNIX, last I checked
- >there was none (not even a de-arj'er).
- >there was none (not even a de-arj'er).
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- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/misc/unix/unarj230.tar-z
- will do it.
- This and other compression questions are answered in the compression
- chart ('how to decompress anything') on
- ftp.cso.uiuc.edu:/doc/pcnet/compression
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