Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!goanna!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!rcotl From: rcotl@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Tim Liddelow [The Mad Monk]) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Re: Compression on Unix machines Message-ID: <1991Mar27.025111.17547@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Date: 27 Mar 91 02:51:11 GMT References: Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia. Lines: 24 mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins) writes: >kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes: >> [ deleted ] >My compresser of choice is LHarc. It gives very tight compression, and is >available for Unix, Amigas, and PClones (I don't know what's out for the Mac). >The only drawback of LHarc is that it is slow. Both Zoo and Arc are also >available for Unix, Amigas, and PClones, but neither compresses nearly as >well as LHarc. Exactly. And the great thing about having lharc on a mainframe unix box is that the I/O deosn't slow lharc down, as one the PC. Of course, it is the best compressor out of the lot. Still, if someone wrote a PKZIP implementation for UNIX, I'd use that :-) -- ! Tim Liddelow | ! ! Computer Science & Com Eng | Jordan to Paxson...Paxson assists ! ! Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Pippen..JAM.."Scottie Piipppeenn!"! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+