Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: lharc on UNIX (was Re: But is there a ZIP? (Was "unzip for unix?")) Message-ID: <1896@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 16 Sep 90 17:44:31 GMT References: <1990Sep14.183442.5007@sj.ate.slb.com> <1990Sep14.212200.6207@looking.on.ca> <58772@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 26 In article <58772@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes: | I use the "lharc" program to archive and compress files on various unix | machines, specifically to manage related groups of data files which I | need to move around or hang onto. I much prefer it, as it is more | efficient at compression than "compress" and more convenient to use | than "tar"; and vastly more convenient than the tar/compress combination. I agree with you about the compression, but it is slower than compress, zoo, zip, or 300 baud modems. It lacks comments on files and the archive as a whole (at least the one I have does). There is a new 2.0beta version for DOS which is (not* available to the public, but which should be by the end of the year. It isn't much faster, but has better compression. It beats every compressor I've ever seen for that, including zip with flags set. It has *not* been ported to UNIX. I believe that a new version of zoo will be coming which uses a new high performance packing method. This would give all the advantages in features, while adding better compression. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me