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From: warren@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Warren Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: abcfd20:/amiga/sounds opened (was Re: Compressed archive format)
Message-ID: <6570030@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 20:10:36 GMT
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>/ hpindda:comp.sys.amiga / olson@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Olson) / 10:48 am  Sep  6, 1990 /
>In article <2909@corpane.UUCP> you write:
>>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 
>>
>>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

So, could send both of these (with source if you have it) to 
comp.{binaries,sources}.amiga?  If they are really that much faster
than lharc and zoo, I would like to try them.  Thanks

                    Warren Burnett