Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!pawl!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: PKZip Amiga arrives Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 90 21:00:34 GMT References: <1990Jan11.062433.27699@i-core.UUCP> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 31 In <1990Jan11.062433.27699@i-core.UUCP> pete@i-core.UUCP (Pete Ashdown) writes: -> What is really nice about it is the fact that the whole thing is -> intuitionized, which IMHO makes it a better program than all the other -> compressors combined. Its interface looks GOOD too! No standard slop -> windows here. Everything has a NeXTish look to it. It also has online help -> and a pallette control. I think it blows the MS-DOS version away. Anything would blow an MS-Dross version away :) Seriously though, I think PKZip Amiga sucks. It's 80k, has no command line usage, opens up a custom screen with custom resolution and custom colors, is quite slow, crashes almost invariably on large files, doesn't multitask well, and is getting heavy attention from the novice users on the local BBSes (they want everyone to use it because it's "so easy, how could you not like it?"). It pains me to say this, but I'd rather use Arc. -> I hope we can toss ARC and LHARC now (yeah sure....). I tossed arc long ago and now only keep pkax around. I avoid LHARC if possible already. My archiver of choice till something faster with decent compression and a simple interface comes out is Zoo. Works on my Amiga, works on Unix. Fine with me.... -- Robert Jude Kudla "Famous? I'm not famous. People come up to me after a show and say 'Hey, Steve!'" -Jon Anderson