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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
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 20:37:02 MET
- References: <C0KnA7.1sr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <726586156rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> <1993Jan9.200422.13011@ncsu.edu>
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- Keywords: archive compress ARJ PKZIP LHA ZOO
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- In article <1993Jan9.200422.13011@ncsu.edu> mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (Mike Marcelais) writes:
- >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
- >
- >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
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- How do you *pack* with an unpacker? :-) :-)
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
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- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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