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From: rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz)
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Subject: Re: lharc woes (AGAIN, was Is musedt.lzh corrupted?)
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Date: 20 Jun 91 18:21:28 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.120942.28747@cs.nott.ac.uk> dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer) writes:
>Just some random mutterings...

i expect no more :-)

>Have you tried the version of lharc in the gnustuff directory on a.a? I've

this is not the point. the fact that i can (eventually) FIND a version
of lharc to unpack any particulary archive may sound like there is no
problem at all. there is. the SEARCH for the lharc version to do it IS
the problem. until all the various lharc developers (many of whose work
by itself is excellent, BTW) get together and standardize an extensible
file format, this is basically still russian roulette.

>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.

yes, this, too is a major problem. i consider MY time far more valuable
than the few pennies i save on floppies (which can cost as little as $0.35
each). my time (to me, anyway) is more like $50-100/hour. if i can archive
say 10 MB/hr with arc and only 5 MB/hr with lharc, and lharc saves me
50%, then i wasted $50 of my time to save maybe $2 on disks. hardly worth
it. after all, we are only on the planet for a short time. i'd hate
to waste it waiting for lharc :-) (or continuing this debate as well)

-bill
rosenkra@convex.com
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