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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: xx vs. uu
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Date: 16 Feb 90 15:29:53 GMT
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In article <493@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  Many people indicated that they wanted to be able to unpack the
>archives on UNIX machines and read the docs before taking the time to
>download to a DOS machine. That leaves arc and zoo. zoo was voted by the
>readers last year and doesn't ask for money. Now that PKARC is (mostly)
>gone zoo is a lot faster on the PC end, too.

That's wrong. There was an UnZIP for PKZIP 1.0 posted to
comp.sources.unix or comp.sources.misc some time ago and a full LHarc is
available for Unix and OS/2 as well. This is a C version not identical
to the original MS-DOS LHarc but creates exactly the same archives. They
both compress *MUCH* better than arc and zoo. I would prefer PKZIP
because it is about two times faster than the original MS-DOS LHarc at
compression and about three times faster at unpacking.

If you need the UNZIP or LHarc for Unix sources (written in C), I have
them available.

Kai Uwe Rommel
Munich
rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de