Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!polaris.utu.fi!polaris!jita From: jita@polaris.utu.fi (Marko Katajisto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Lharc is no good. Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 17:31:02 GMT References: <1990Oct4.133454.25942@cs.umu.se> Sender: jita@polaris.utu.fi (Marko Katajisto) Organization: University of Turku, Finland. Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: dvljhg@cs.umu.se's message of 4 Oct 90 13:34:54 GMT In article <1990Oct4.133454.25942@cs.umu.se> dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) writes: > I have seen a lot of postings complaining about lharc lately. > The program is poorly written and you should use some other > archive/compressor but if you use the nozero option you will > at least screw the files up as little as possible :-) Well well, what can I say... I've used lharc rather heavily for a while now and have nothing negative to say about it. I've used lharc in UNIX and in my Amy with very few conflicts. Lharc's newest version 1.2 is very stable and beta version 0.9 of LZ works rather fine too. UNIX version is a bit buggy still, you just got to use a patched version of it and everything works fine... Lharc is not a poorly written program, it's an excellent piece of public domain software and a nice and useful tool. > Jorgen PS. My whole 25-meg PD library ic compressed with lharc simply because it's the best available tool for it... :) Jita - Marko Katajisto University of Turku Department of Computer Science Internet: jita@utu.fi Bitnet: jita@firien.bitnet Tel: 358 21 325910