Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: lharc algorithm (was Re: Final Vote Tally/Summary)
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Date: 10 Apr 89 20:19:56 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) <13553@steinmetz.ge.com> :
-I think the discussion of going to zoo as a standard is no longer
-germane. Now that the source for the lharc algorithm is out I would
-expect to see a portable archiver for UNIX/DOS/AmigaDOS/ST500/Mac
-shortly.

I agree.  I am really curous to see how that algorithm stacks up against
16-bit LZW compression as represented by UNIX compresses.

Rahul mentioned that the compression code in zoo was a couple of hundred
lines out of the total.  I'd like to see a next-generation archiver with
zoo's versatility and lharc's compression (viewing it as the current
high-water mark).  That should yield the portability "for free", as it were.

[And I propose that it be called BSUJAParc, the BSU-Japan All-Purpose
ARChiver :-]