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From: wirzeniu@cs.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Let's have ONE standard lharc!
Message-ID: <10765@hydra.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 19 Jan 91 10:35:41 GMT
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In article <20609@yunexus.YorkU.CA> oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>In article <767@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> koreth@panarthea.EBay.Sun.COM
>(Steven Grimm) writes:
>>The lharc program is really nice (though a bit slow) and I'd like to see it
>>become a more widespread standard.
>
>I thought that the prevailing standard (at least on non-un*x systems)
>was zip.

Why not use zoo as a standard, it is already quite portable, though it's
compression isn't all that wonderful. Work on this is supposed to be on
the way, however.

Anyway, one portable standard would be nice, it's a pain in the *ss to
have to keep up with the latest versions of zillions of archivers. It is
of less importance exactly what this standard is, as long as it's
reasonably effective and free (it's stupid to choose a commercial
standard, since there are several good PD ones).

Lars Wirzenius    wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi