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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Compressed archive format
Message-ID: <2909@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 90 19:26:38 GMT
References: <1990Aug25.180851.4401@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG| <6570029@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY
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warren@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Warren Burnett) writes:

|/ hpindda:comp.sys.amiga / sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) /  2:52 pm  Aug 27, 1990 /

|> Lharc seems speed comparable with Zoo, maybe a bit slower at packing.

|HA! That's a laugh.  Even on my 68030 workstation lharc is slow.  Lharc 
|takes about five times as long as zoo does on compression and two to 
|three times as long as zoo on decompression, at least on the kinds of 
|files that I archive.

|Personally, I am sticking with zoo.  I would rather have my archive files
|be slightly larger than sit around waiting for ten minutes to decompress
|this nifty new screen hack I just downloaded.

Well after downloading files to my amiga then starting to uncompress them,
I usually stay at the console when uncompressing a Lharc file with Lhunarc
but I can go watch about 15 minutes of TV when unzooing a zoo file. And
that is on any kind of file. You must have a really lousy version of
Lharc. 


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