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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: ICE?
Keywords: ice lharc
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.002823.29702@qualcomm.com>
Date: 24 Mar 91 00:28:23 GMT
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In article <1991Mar22.063635.11498@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rlarson2@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Robert S larson) writes:
>
> I seem to remember seeing posts a few months ago that an archive
>program called ice was nothing but a renamed copy of lharc.
>Does my memory serve me right? Or is ice legitamate?e

Ice is a cosmetic hack of LHarc.  Instead of the "."s and "o"s it uses some
special IBM graphics characters, etc.  Get the new LHARC version 2.11 instead.
It's about as fast as PKZIP and it compresses much better.