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From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Compressed archive format
Message-ID: <90237.220415JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 90 02:04:15 GMT
References: <1990Aug25.180851.4401@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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In article <1990Aug25.180851.4401@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
(Kent Paul Dolan) says:
>
>Could some kind soul 1) do a good set of benchmarks to see which is
>the most time/space efficient of the new archivers, and publish it
>here; 2) find and distribute the widely ported source code for the
>host executable; 3) find and distribute the source code and executables
>for the Amiga versions; and, most important, 4) pick _one_ new
>archiver/format we can all agree upon?

No need to duplicate the effort of doing benchmarks and publishing
the results.... Look at the August 1990 issue of AmigaWorld, page 46.
There's an entire article comparing ARC, ZOO, LHARC, and PKAZIP.

                                                            Kurt
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