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- From: sts@mfltd.co.uk (Steve Sherwood)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of ARJ 2.3 and PKZip 2.04 and 1.1 (Was: pkzip 2.04c uploaded to w)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.142229.6170@mfltd.co.uk>
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- Organization: Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, England
- References: <1993Jan9.859.6057@execnet> <1993Jan9.133357.10027@ac.dal.ca> <1993Jan13.230958.141784@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1993Jan14.113037.22314@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan14.122504.330@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> <rdippold.727036230@cancun> <exuptr.663.0@exu.ericOrganization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc. <exuptr.698.0@exu.ericsson.se>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:22:29 GMT
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- In article <exuptr.698.0@exu.ericsson.se>, exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Sunbird a la 400ci) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan18.095526.12886@mfltd.co.uk> sts@mfltd.co.uk (Steve Sherwood) writes:
- |>
- |> >Quite right, +/- 1% is irrelevant for most people, and arj is slow. This is
- |> >something that the author should address. ZIP is fast and it compresses well,
- |> >but it is horribly full of bugs. I can't even use it in a DOS window without
- |> >adding -) on the end on the command line. It's multi-volume (in)capabilty
- |> >is pretty bad, and it is rather limited in functionality.
- |>
- |> >All in all, functionality and freedom from bugs makes me use arj. It is
- |> >a pity that it is rather slow. Ok.. Mr Robert K jung, if you are reading,
- |> >this is this weeks chalange.
- |>
- |> On the other hand, I could tolerate the slowness of arj if it were a windows
- |> app.
- |>
- |> Mr. Jung has some speed to address, but PKWARE may address their bug
- |> problems also. For some reason, the copy I got from them seems to be
- |> missing some of these bugs, but I'm also running a real straight setup.
- |>
- |> You wouldn't be using QEMM by any chance?
-
- My setup is simply DOS5.00, Himem.sys (as supplied with windows 3.1), and
- smartdrv (again, as supplied with windows 3.1. Probably the most basic
- setup that most people will use for windows. The fact that It crashes in
- a DOS window on this level of machine setup, shows a distinct lack of
- testing by pkware.
-
- Steve
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