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From: d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: File Compression forms
Message-ID: <1095@tau.sm.luth.se>
Date: 17 Sep 90 13:56:11 GMT
References: <9009131753.AA01141@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <P3eiP3w163w@valnet>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes:
(on Jerry Whitmans request, my comment)


>Ok....here's a simple chart:
[ stuff deleted... ]

>LHArcA    | .LZH      | *****  | Use mouse to (de)archive .LZH files.
>LZ        | .LZH      | ****   | REAL FAST and VERY BUGGY.

What do you mean "very buggy"??? Don't scare people away like that before
you know for sure what you're talking about!

>away from LZ at this point, as it is very buggy and not 100% compatable 
>with LHArc. If you are CLI weary, try LHArcA, as it is faster than LHArc, 

FYI (for your information :-) the author of LZ an Lhunarc is the same guy.
And yes, I know that LZ crashes if your stack is too small. If you set
your stack to, say 15000 or so, it *never* crashes. This stack problem is
the only problem *I've* experienced with LZ and is easily fixed.
Use it - it's fast. And I mean fast!

BTW, the newest LZ 0.90 uses much less stack. You can ftp it from abcfd20,
/incoming/amiga/. I also believe some other small incompatibility bug was
fixed in this version, although I've never encountered any problems with
compatibility between LHarc an LZ. And I've used LZ a lot.

Mike
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