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- From: bz556@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joshua E. Randall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: GAME BYTES: ARJ compression. O.K.?
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:42:44 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- References: <1993Jan7.203236.1839@elcsci.com> <1993Jan6.011656.20486@b11.b11.ingr.com>
- Reply-To: bz556@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joshua E. Randall)
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- In a previous article, towel@elcsci.com (Big Wilber) says:
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- >now that pkware has released pkzip ver 2.04c, why not use that. it compacts
- >tighter than arj
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- Because PKZip 2.04c has only been out for a few days and has not spread to
- enough people. ARJ 2.30 has been out for months.
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- Actually the safest best is probably to stick with PKZip 1.1 -- it's old,
- but sturdy, portable, and widespread.
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- --
- Joshua E. Randall bz556@cleveland.freenet.edu
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