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From: c60b-1eq@web-4e.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
Subject: Re: ARJ and Jung are not all they seem
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 21:36:59 GMT
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In article <11382@uwm.edu> mitsue@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mitsue Osanami) writes:
>People should not be getting too excited about ARJ 2.00 or any other...
>90% of the code used in ARJ is "stolen" directly from LHA.  I do not think it
>at all appropriate for Jung to be putting a copyright and "all rights 
>reserved" on code that wasnt' written by him.  The code is the SAME in
>most parts of the code down to formatting and a few comments.

If this is true, I'm interested in how he decreased compression time
dramatically (substantially less than LHa's time) while still coding all
of it in ANSI C (so Mr. Jung claims).  LHa is partly coded in assembler.

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