Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!feg From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Binaries: ARC vs PKARC vs ZOO Summary: It depends on how long you sit Message-ID: <24494@clyde.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Apr 88 17:23:46 GMT References: <23699@clyde.ATT.COM> <1805@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <1685@polyslo.UUCP> <230@unsvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ Lines: 11 In article <230@unsvax.UUCP>, tlhingan@unsvax.UUCP (Eugene Tramaglino) writes: > > Personal Note: I cannot stand pkarc. I prefer ARC's one (1) program > that does the job just as well. I don't like invoking different > commands to 'v' an archive and 'e' an archive. Apparently you have not had the boredom of waiting for a couple dozen small files being archived by SEA's ARC--it's almost like watching paint dry. PKARC does it at least 5 times faster. Forrest Gehrke