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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Archivers
Keywords: packers
Message-ID: <237@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 01:50:03 GMT
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Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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In article <984@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu.uucp (ERIC SCHWERTFEGER) writes:
>> Where can one get LHarc and how is it compared to arc,zoo warp etc.
>
>	It is slower than most archivers, but more effective than anything
>else like it.  I have a 15 Meg subdirectory of zoo files that is now only
>11 meg of .lzh files.

Well, it looks like I will be sticking with zoo for my library since the
copyright restrictions preclude my distributing the lharc program (the 
restriction that no fee be charged except the cost of magnetic media).
Tis a pity, because there are times when I could have used the extra
compression to get something to fit on a single disk.

-Fred
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