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From: the.fawn@mcshh.hanse.de (Thomas Quester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: lharc woes (AGAIN, was Is musedt.lzh corrupted?)
Message-ID: <9330@mcshh.hanse.de>
Date: 26 Jun 91 10:42:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.151348.795@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1991Jun19.012653.8005@convex.com> <1991Jun20.120942.28747@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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>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. :-)

If you are using the wrong version of LHarc, it IS slow. The slowes of them
all is John Webbs 0.xx. The LZH 1.13.20 is about 4 times faster than the
original 1.13, because the whole compression and decompression is entierly
written in assembler. It should be about twice as fast as LHA 1.21 in
decoding and about 3 times faster in coding.

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Thomas Quester * Lampenland 9 * 2050 Hamburg 80