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From: plouff@kali.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Compressed archive format
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Date: 27 Aug 90 13:58:38 GMT
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In article <90237.220415JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>, JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes...
> 
>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

Errr, the article has many flaws.  Chief among these are the author's 
ignorance of the software distribution methods used on the net (i.e. the 
importance of archiving tools on large systems), his obvious bias toward 
PKAZIP and his failure to mention the number of files and directories in 
his test packages.

He also claims that "one prominent developer [found] that LHARC sometimes
lost pieces of archived text files," but offers no details.  Anybody got 
an explanation for this _AmigaWorld_ howler?

-- 
Wes Plouff, Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard, Mass.
plouff@kali.enet.dec.com

Networking bibliography:  _Islands in the Net_, by Bruce Sterling
			  _The Matrix_, by John S. Quarterman