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From: pingel@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Pingel Dalsgaard)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: ARJ 2.0 BUGGY?!
Keywords: New Version
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.155821.2884@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 21 Apr 91 15:58:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr19.200436.14936@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Sender: pingel@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Pingel Dalsgaard)
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chuangss@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shyne Song Chuang) writes:

>Hi there,

>Just wanted to let you guys know that there's a new version of ARJ that's
>out. Version 2 is *supposed* to compress as well as LHA 2.1x (gives perhaps
>the best compression around) AND is supposed to compress as fast as PKZIP!
>If any of you know an ftp site where it can be found, please mention it.
>I got my copy of ARJ 2.0 from Delphi.

>As usual, I haven't had time to test ARJ, so correct me if I'm wrong... But
>that's what I read in the .doc file.


>Cheers,
>Kevin


Oh yes ARJ is quite impressive, a BUG, however, has to be corrected soon
(or else I need to re-read to "features" chapter of the documentation)!

When using ARJ -t1 which is supposed to pack C program source files
better than normal, it pack EXE files even better, by simply truncating
the file to a size of 2Kb-3Kb!!

I am mailing the author to find a solution to the problem. All other
features seems OK, and it ranks with LHA now!

-pingel

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