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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 12:52:00 EDT
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>Be aware that, in addition to ARC, LU, and others, there are several
>incompatible versions of SQ/USQ floating around, which is why I don't use
>them any more.  ARC seems to be better and more stable.  I know nothing of
>LU except that it exists and may do squeezing as part of its function.

I must respectfully differ!  A sysop of a local FidoNode is perpetually
having problems with the folks at SEA tweaking ARC to up the version number
and introduce incompatibilities.  On the other hand, SQ/USQ, while it is
definitely far less nice as a compresser than a Lempel-Ziv program, does
run on lots of stuff.  The version I have, that compiled and ran with no
problems on an OS-9/6809 system I use, had lots of conditional compilation
to make it run on MANY things--while that makes it harder to read, it
shows the authors have their hearts in the right place, and the README
file was chock full of "PLEASE don't introduce incompatibilities" messages.

						James Jones