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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Compressed archive format
Message-ID: <3149@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 90 20:23:13 GMT
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xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

|sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
|>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
                                                                     ^^^^^^^

|Well, lharc does something on the screen to keep your attention; I'd be a
|bit surprised if it were really faster than zoo at decompression: please
|do a couple of timing tests on large files, and, if you find lharc actually
|faster, _please_ publish your version number!  ;-)

Note, I said using "LHUNARC" not lharc. There is a big difference in those
two programs. LZ as has been mentioned, is even faster. 

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