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- From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (Mike Marcelais)
- Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c vs. ARJ 2.39b (and LHA/ZOO) Compression Results ** UPDATED
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.200422.13011@ncsu.edu>
- Keywords: archive compress ARJ PKZIP LHA ZOO
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <C0KnA7.1sr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <726586156rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:04:22 GMT
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- In article <726586156rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>, rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
- |> >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.
- |> Kai Uwe Rommel
- |> Info-ZIP
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- Well, the ARJer is only for MSdos, but there is a C version of unarj for
- multiple platforms abailable at places like:
- bode.ee.ualberta.ca:/pub/newstuff/unarj230.tar.Z
- cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu:/pub/geos/unarj230.tar.Z
- faramir.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/pub/dkbtrace/utils/unarj230.tar.Z
- goya.dit.upm.es:/info/unix/archive/unarj230.tar.Z
- sugrfx.acs.syr.edu:/pub/incoming/mine/arj/unarj230.tar.Z
-
- (archie is great!)
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