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From: dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PKZip Amiga arrives
Keywords: archiver,lharc,pkazip
Message-ID: <549@dsoft.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 90 23:00:27 GMT
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In article <78.25B29F1F@cave.cc.andrews.edu> Adam.Benjamin@cave.cc.andrews.edu
(Adam Benjamin) writes:
>
> 
>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 

	Well, I'm a floppy user so I guess I qualify :-).  I've found that 
lharc gets roughly 10-15% better compression most of the time, though zip
seems
to do better on text files.
	I don't like zip very much because it's huge, and the intuition 
interface keeps me from using it in a script.  It seemed to use godawful 
amounts of ram, too, though I belive that's because it creates all temporary 
files in RAM:, and that you can change it if you don't like it.  Still, I'll
be sticking with lharc for now.
 
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