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From: davidsen@rdsunx.crd.GE.COM (William E Davidsen)
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Subject: re: Archiver
Keywords: ooops!
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Date: 14 May 91 19:13:43 GMT
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In article <1991May9.162759.4000@cabezon.uucp>, darrinm@cabezon.uucp
(Darrin Mossor) writes:
|>   What I failed to make clear is that I was looking for _other_ solutions
|> and how they might compare to tar/compress or any other solutions.
|>   Personally, I like the idea of lharc, as it does it all in one swell
|> foop!  However speed and size are still considerations.

  At some time before the end of the year a free version of ZIP for UNIX
is likely to come out. While it is slower than lharc, compression is
similar and portability to UNIX and MS-DOS is good, Mac and Amiga likely
to be included.

  I have been in touch with the author of ARJ and he is planning to
offer some kind of crippled compressor for UNIX if any. I suggested that
a portable version would help his shareware distribution in the MS-DOS
world but he doesn't see it that way.

  Lharc 2.x doesn't seem to be ported to UNIX yet.