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From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: lharc woes (AGAIN, was Is musedt.lzh corrupted?)
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.120942.28747@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Jun 91 12:09:42 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.151348.795@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1991Jun19.012653.8005@convex.com>
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In article <1991Jun19.012653.8005@convex.com> rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz) writes:
> [...]
>
>In article <1991Jun18.151348.795@ccu.umanitoba.ca> bright@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bob Bright) writes:
>>(To all the progenitors of lharc and .lzh files: I hope you die a
>>thousand miserable deaths, choking forever on the few megs of disk
>>space you've managed to save the world at the expense of countless
>>hours of frustration and wasted time and net bandwidth.)
>
>i LOVE this guy. he hits the point home! "a pox on you [lharc-ers] and
>all your ancesters" as ed norton would say :-).
>
>and NO, as much as i would REALLY like to, i will NOT eat my words (yet :-)
>
>so you STILL think i am nuts? (rhetorical: don't answer that... :-)

Just some random mutterings...

Have you tried the version of lharc in the gnustuff directory on a.a? I've
yet to find a .lzh which it couldn't handle. The difference in compression
ratios between zoo and lharc is quite considerable, up to 30%. Arc is
somewhere in between.

My complaint with lharc is that's its's too damn slow. I still mainly use zoo
because I just can't be bothered to spend hours waiting for lharc.

As long as people stop using the brain-dead Arc I really don't mind which one
they use... let's hope we can avoid tar and compress, at least until Minix
support in MiNT is better. :-)
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