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- From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c vs. ARJ 2.39b (and LHA/ZOO) Compression Results ** UPDATED
- Keywords: archive compress ARJ PKZIP LHA ZOO
- Message-ID: <726586156rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 13:29:16 GMT
- References: <C0KnA7.1sr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- In article <C0KnA7.1sr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> djtooley@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Doug Tooley) writes:
- >I congratulate PKWARE on the speed and compression of their program, but
- >the best way to damage consumer confidence is to release a long-awaited
- >product and have it "full of bugs". It leads one to ask: "Testing?!?"
- >
- >I also congratulate Robert K. Jung on his Beta version of ARJ. I was
- >quite impressed by the improved speed (especially at the maximum (-jm)
- >compression level, which is what I use normally.) I much prefer ARJ's
- >handing of volume splitting over that of the new PKZIP. ARJ has proven
- >itself to have the options, ease of use, reliability and now
- >speed for me to use it as my #1 compression/archiving program.
- >(I sound like a commercial. :)
- >
- >My previous comments heralded PKZIP as #1, but with their bug reports
- >and ARJ's improved speed I have decided to wait the extra 7 seconds
- >for a more little reliability. I'm going to continue to use ARJ.
-
- Unfortunately, ARJ is a one-platform-only program. There are
- (especially among USENET readers) a lot of people who don't use MS-DOS
- for one reason or another. Robert K. Jung has promised development of
- a portable C version for *years* but nothing has shown up so far,
- please correct me if I'm wrong. And I have asked him for this even
- *before* I joined Info-ZIP.
-
- For me, Info-ZIP's utilities server quite well as portable
- cross-platform archivers which allow data exchange, still support OS
- specifics (such as OS/2 extended attributes and VMS file formats) and
- is reasonably fast. That's why I support it. Having a second similarly
- portable (or third, if you cound ZOO, but it does have little support
- for OS specifics and is slow) would be fine. Competing with MS-DOS
- PKZIP is not much fun due to the large number of bugs, quirks and
- restrictions to circumvent in this environment. :-)
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
- Info-ZIP
-
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