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From: kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Francisco Kuan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: zip vs. other archivers
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Date: 14 Oct 89 18:37:54 GMT
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Zip sucks eggs. It crunches pretty slow, and it unpacks pretty
slow. Boy, run IBM programs on your Amiga. What's next? MS-DOS
for the Amiga? Maybe Workbench 1.4 will have a keymap that sticks the
control where it SHOULD be, on the left of the space bar. Ok, sorry
for being so cynical, but I see no reason for using zip, unless you
run an Amiga BBS on an IBM or something... I'm basically sick and
tired of seeing IBM ports, especially bad games. Anyone who has ever
seen an SSI game on the Amiga probably wonders the same thing I do.
Did they port it from an IBM, Apple II, or a toaster? Why can't
they port something useful, like Microsoft C Compiler? We have enough
archivers on the Amiga. I prefer Zoo, or the same reason most poeple 
do. Another cruncher I like to use is Power Packer. It takes a real 
long time to crunch, but it decrunches incredibly fast. For example,
I have some animation demos that are around 300K, and it takes power
packer about 15 seconds to uncrunch, whereas unzip takes a couple of
minutes.