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From: davidsen@antarctica.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Let's have ONE standard lharc!
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.105006@antarctica.crd.GE.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 91 15:50:06 GMT
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In article <155962@felix.UUCP>, art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick) writes:

|> Well zoo has all four and source is available on comp.sources.misc.
|> With version 2 comming out soon, with improved compression and speed,
|> I think we have a standard archiver already.

  I think that if the final version of "new zoo" is as good as the
preliminary figures indicate it will do better compression than zip or
lharc, be faster, widely portable, and free. That is unlikely to change
the minds of people who use zip now for political reasons.
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Bill Davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com, uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
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