Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!fergvax!252u3130 From: 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Lharc is no good. Message-ID: <1990Oct15.162017.17992@hoss.unl.edu> Date: 15 Oct 90 16:20:17 GMT References: <1990Oct4.133454.25942@cs.umu.se> <3377@corpane.UUCP> <5037@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: Comp Sci and Engr, Univ. of Nebr. Lines: 41 In article <5037@crash.cts.com> nkraft@crash.cts.com (Norman Kraft) writes: >In article <3377@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: > >>Not only that, but 99% of all software on 99% of the BBS's in the USA is >>LHARCed, so it is a standard whether one wants it to be or not. I have had >>no trouble with it. Jorgan might be confusing it with LHWARP, which does >>seem to have some bugs in it (re: all the trouble people have had with >>the commodore 64 emulator file on abcfd) > >Excuse me? I don't know what boards you use, but 99% of the software >on 99% of the BBS's in the USA (which tend to be DOS, not Amiga), is >ZIP'ed, not LHARCed. Most of the software on public access and >university systems is ZOO'ed (which makes sense, since it is the most >portable, if not the most efficient.) Some of the Amiga boards around >here in San Diego are ZOOing their software, as well... > Yeah right. Hmmmm....I wonder why I seem to be saving over 30% converting zoo's to lzh's? I wonder why our BBS is in the process of convertings all pak, arc, and zoo's, into lzh's (sits to .cpt's!). I know for a fact that lzh beats the dickins outta zoo. Converting a 6 meg partioion of zoo's yielded me over 1.5 megs more of space, dude. The reason the net uses zoo, was because it's an OLD standard. It supported full path structure so it was used over arc. As a result UNIX picked it up quick (probably developed on UNIX). Nowadays, UNIX has forgotton zoo and now goes with .Z's-- a suped up lzh'er!. Lharc is relatively new and works very well. Except for the new cpt format on MACS (its even better than lzh), we Amigan's need to get a common compression form. Like an IFF compressor to be better known as lzh. Phil Dietz ps. LZH averages about 3-6% better than ZIPS. IBM'ers should stick with ZIP's though, so Amiga files and IBM don't get confused. <<<=================--------- Cheap Ad ---------===================<<< Phil Dietz SWL Lincoln 565 MEGS! 2 lines 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu (402)421-1963 AMIGA, IBM, MAC, GIFS Unless your're qweer, you'll buy an Amiga.