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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Compressed archive format
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Date: 30 Aug 90 16:35:51 GMT
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In article <1056@tau.sm.luth.se> d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman) writes:
>at once..:-) Lharc isn't nearly as flawless as zoo yet and the UNIX version
>lacks *lots* of options that a good archiver must have, but it's a beginning.
>(There were more that one version of zoo too, right? :-)

Well, why not take the packing algorithms out of lharc and incorporate
them into zoo? Why keep switching to another archiver that has to be
ported across a bunch of machines instead of incorporating new features
into an archiver that already works and has been ported?  -- Darren
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