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From: mholtz@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark A. Holtz)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Why ARC?
Message-ID: <2572@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 90 03:14:29 GMT
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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I noticed that aprx. 95% of the files stored on simtel20 are stored
in a ARC format. The question is, WHY?

The reason why I am asking is that ZIP, LHARC, and so on have a
better compression format than old ARC.
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