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From: roy@cybrspc (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PKZIP 1.10 availability
Keywords: PKZIP
Message-ID: <65FXk2w160w@cybrspc>
Date: 17 Jun 90 20:30:16 GMT
References: <13525@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:

> In <6780@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> roelofs@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Ender Wiggin) writ
> 
> I know a sysop who (just after the ZIP/ARC wars) went to LHARC because of
> that few percent.  (He has nearly a gigabyte of files, so even a small
> savings was worth it to him.)  But he finally switched to ZIP because, I
> gather, he needed more support than he could get from a non-commercial
> product.

I also moved to LHarc with my BBS (in Alaska, and now defunct since I
moved south) because of the advantage in size. However, when version
1.10 of PKZIP was released, the difference in size shrank to such a
small margin that PKZIP's faster compression and decompression became
more important. I didn't delete LHarc, though... it still produces the
smallest self-extracting file.
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