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From: michael@sunham.germany.sun.com (Michael Joswig (Vertriebsunterstuetzung Hamburg))
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re:  lharc for minix (and unix and msdos)
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Date: 10 Dec 90 08:23:30 GMT
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Bill Mitchell writes:

>>Sources for lharc recently came floating by in another group.
>>For those not familiar with it, lharc is one of several common
>>tools for msdos to compress & archive files & directory trees.
>>It compresses smaller than unix/minix compress.

Not to mention Atari-ST, there it goes too (Slow but compact...)

>>I've got it running on a sun, on msdos, and on pc_minix.
>>
>>Is there interest in this?  Should I post the sources as modified
>>for pc_minix?  Should I send them somewhere to be looked at first?

Of course there is. This could be a very good replace for compress,
which works under Unix and Atari 16bit, but on PC only 13bit.
I (personally) would also be interested in the unix-source, if available.

>>--
>>mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)
>>
Ciao,
     Michael.