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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
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Subject: Re: ARJ and Jung are not all they seem
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Date: 27 Apr 91 00:02:29 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 you will go back to ARJ version .20 the results from it will be BYTE for
>BYTE the same as that from AR2!
>
>The only advancement that he has made is increasing the dictionary size to
>22k!  This guy deserves no recognition.  

It's a big speed increase over LHA.  That alone is worth considering.

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