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From: chuangss@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shyne Song Chuang)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: ARJ 1.10
Keywords: Compressor for MSDOS
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.052051.9001@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 91 05:20:51 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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Hi there everyone,

Recently, I learnt of a new compression program for IBM PCs. This new program
goes by the name of ARJ and the latest version is 1.10. It's currently
only available for the IBM PC but from the .doc file, it seems that a UNIX
version (simplified) will be released in late 91. ARJ seems really good. 
It has a lot of commands that PKZIP and LHA left out, like stuff for sorting
files in archives etc... There are a lot of extra commands and here comes
the good part, it is supposed to compress BEST, equal to LHA 2.10 and is
slightly faster.

It gives compression that is definitely better than PKZIP and all the others.


Yours truly,
Kev