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From: Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PKZip Amiga arrives
Message-ID: <26053@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Jan 90 02:56:15 GMT
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>So I hear the latest arciver ZIP is out for us Amigans now...
>My question is...
>What is the best.  (these are arcivers, so which one sqeezes the smallest?)
>And I don't want a reply from any of you 150+meg wren users out there 
> 

LHARC produces the smallest archives with PKAZIP a distant second (3-5% 
larger.) Both archivers run at about the same speed.  ZOO and ARC produce
similar files 10-15% larger than LHARC.  

LHARC supports protection bits, full filenames, recursive directory creation
or search, and date/time stamps.  LHARC's major failing is that it asks you
each time it creates a subdirectory.

PKAZIP is proprietary, and has an exceptionally ugly interface, but otherwise
does an acceptable job of file compression.  Amiga protection bits and time
stamps are not supported to the best of my knowlege.

ZOO's are more portable to UNIX than either ARC files or ZIP files.  LHARC
for the Amiga currently produces files with more recent compression schemes
than either the MSDOS version, or the UNIX version.

--Sullivan Segal
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