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- From: myst@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: GAME BYTES: ARJ compression. Where?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.125855.2855@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 12:58:55 -0500
- References: <1993Jan6.011656.20486@b11.b11.ingr.com> <1993Jan8.091617.2359@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club
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- In article <1993Jan8.091617.2359@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>, z_kennedypc@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- > In article <1993Jan7.225144.12384@reed.edu>, odlin@reed.edu (Iain Odlin) writes:
- >>
- >> I'll readily admit I have not yet seen the new PKZIP, but I have been watch-
- >> ing the discussion about using ARJ and kept wondering why no one had yet men-
- >> tioned LHA. I've got both LHA and ARJ and find LHA to be more useful, on the
- >> whole. Anything I'm missing?
- >>
- >> Thanks,
- >> -Iain Odlin
- >
- > I was once a sysop here in Nacogdoches, Texas and I can fill you in on the
- > why's of using arj over lha.
- >
- > Arj has a tighter compression ratio than Lha. Arj has the newest updates to
- > it's standard. It offers the same capabilities as Lha but allows for file
- > splitting on compression to whatever size you require. Arj also has a better
- > history of not being hacked as Lha was in the creation of Ice compression.
- >
- > To all. Zip was nice but unless someone else is willing to pick up the ball,
- > it appears that the Zip standard will stay with the old programing. It has
- > been two years almost since the last zip update. Arj should be considered for
- > the new standard. It requires a little reading when it comes to parameters but
- > offers everything that zip and its utilities offer in a single package with
- > 20-30% better compression.
- >
- > Paul Kennedy
- > z_kennedypc@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
-
-
- Would someone please tell me where I can find the program which
- uncompacts ARJ formatted program? I missed the originally post of when the
- magazine became availible.
-
- Myst@Drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
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