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From: olson@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Compressed archive format
Message-ID: <9231@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 17:48:35 GMT
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In article <2909@corpane.UUCP> you write:
>warren@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Warren Burnett) writes:
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>|/ hpindda:comp.sys.amiga / sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) /  2:52 pm  Aug 27, 1990 /
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>|> 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 
>
>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




John for an even better improvment over lhunarc, try LZ (el zed) by
Jonathan Forbes, the same guy who wrote lhunarc, it is even faster
and it also deos compression, all in all a Lharc replacement, the most
current verion I have is .90.  It is really quick on a 2500/30!




				Todd Olson

BTW it is shareware, and it looks as though there will be a check sent to
Jonathon from Hawaii, unless he likes Mac nuts some some other guy :-)

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what happens to either yourself or your work seriously." --Booth Tarkington