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- From: drinnen@deakin.edu.au (Philip Shead)
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- Subject: Re : PKZIP 2.04c vs. ARJ 2.39B (and LHA/ZOO) Compression Results ** UPDATED
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 20:11:39 -0600
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- Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c vs. ARJ 2.39b (and LHA/ZOO) Compression Results ** UPDATED
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- In article <726694622rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >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:
- [deleted]
- >>sugrfx.acs.syr.edu:/pub/incoming/mine/arj/unarj230.tar.Z
- >
- >How do you *pack* with an unpacker? :-) :-)
- >
- >Kai Uwe Rommel
- >
- You don't instead you get either
- pd1:<msdos.Arc-Lbr>lha213.exe 44416
-
- or if you don't have a dos box
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- 96999 Sep 23 20:00 oak.oakland.edu:/pub/misc/unix/lha101u.tar-z
-
- and I know there are Macintosh and Amiga versions because I have some somewhere.
- Guess what it does it all in 1 file and the dos version is 34283 bytes compared
- with 70268 for combined pkzip.exe and pkunzip.exe.
- It is only slightly less in compression than arj runs faster (Dos) and has
- not given me a single problem either on my dos box or on the sun's I work on.
- Admittedly it is slightly slower than the Info-zip on the unix machine
- but when you type lha a file *.c & it's very quick.
- --
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- That was drinnen@sol.cc.deakin.OZ.AU and if you don't agree, well I don't care.
- ^^^^^ Soon to be Deakin.Edu.AU
- Or alternately try ps@martyn.apana.org.au.
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