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From: c60b-1eq@web-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
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Subject: Re: Bandwidth/Compatibilty ==> .LZH format.
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.002015.25681@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 00:20:15 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.220214.19570@cs.ubc.ca> yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Gil) writes:
>The title says it all. If we want to save time,space and not
>sacrifice compatability on other machines, we should turn to
>the LZH format (as soon as the C sources are out). I hate
>the oooooo..... output, but, I hate more to wait for dld.


If you're talking about LHARC, the C sources have been out for a long
time.  If you're talking about LHa, you won't be seeing many C sources
out since it is partly written in 8086 assembly language, making a UNIX
port extremely difficult.

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