Newsgroups: comp.compression Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!clotho!kutcha From: kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) Subject: Compression on Unix machines Message-ID: Originator: kutcha@acm.rpi.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: acm.rpi.edu Reply-To: kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) Organization: The Voice of Fate Date: 25 Mar 91 00:50:30 GMT Lines: 26 I'm sure this newsgroup is intended to have more useful purposes than this, but I have decided to post a question to the group anyway because it is something I have been curious about for a long time. What is currently the best compression/decompression package that is available for most (if not all) Unix machines and smaller machines like PCs/Macs/Amigas as well? I've seen it change over the past few years and I have been very out of touch with compression and decompression packages as of late. My search for such packages began a while back when I was trying to find a decent package for our 3B2 machines. All we had was Unix compression/tar, zoo, and arc. I like a compressed tar as much as the next guy, but if I give it to my friend with an IBM PS/2 model 30 there's not a chance he can undo it on his machine. Zoo seemed ok, but it was slow, not that compressed, and a pain in the butt to include directories on. Arc was just blah. I wanted to her Lharc, but the package I tried was only designed to work on BSD and SunOS machines. Now I hear something of a new package called Lhice. Does anyone have any thoughts on it?... as I have not seen it at all. If anyone knows of good packages that will run on a 3B2 (SysV) could you supply an FTP address where I might find such things? Thanks! -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + -Phil Andrew Haldryan Rzewski Internet: kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu + + "I fileted them and ate them." Bitnet: USERF3DK@RPITSMTS.BITNET + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++