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From: chuangss@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shyne Song Chuang)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Compression on Unix machines
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.022314.28838@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 02:23:14 GMT
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In article <xf5f3=c@rpi.edu> kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes:
>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

Hi there,

The Lhice program you mentioned has recently been replaced by a new version
featuring even more powerful compression techniques. Lhice has been replaced
by Lha, a program written by the same Japanese author. I'm not sure if it's
available for different computers but the IBM version was released last month
in February (end of it).

Do any of you out there know if we can get copied of Lha and PKzip 1.1 for 
UNIX? They work great on the PC and I think they are better than the UNIX
compress... No flames please, I'm not sure!


Thanks!
Kevin Chuang