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From: kwerle@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Werle)
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Subject: Re: File compressor
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Date: 12 Feb 91 02:48:10 GMT
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In article <27B5D1B2.7226@ics.uci.edu> kwerle@ics.uci.edu (Werle) writes:
>I'm looking for a file compressor for the next (2.0).  I grabbed a copy
>of zoo, but it munges the dates (at least).  Has anyone ported zoo, or
>lharc, or is there some other compressor out there that is worthwhile?

Thanks to all the people who said 'File compressor?  Use compress!'
I knew about compress already, but I'm used to doing the 'gather and squeeze'
thing all at once.  I also figured that zoo would do a better job.  Boy
was I wrong!  I got a copy of lharc (which always performed better on my
PC than zoo) and did a comparison.  I had no idea compress does such a good
job.

Now as soon as I get a big HD I'll build a pretty front-end thingy for zoo
and compress using this IB thing I hear spoken of so glowingly, if it hasn't
been done already...
Kurt