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From: apang@undergrad.cs.ubc.ca (Anthon 'Amiga' Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: LHARC & ZOO
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Date: 20 Feb 90 21:02:11 GMT
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[oops...deleted the attribution...well, hopefully you know who you are :)]
>>2.  More importantly, I'm currently working on Unix and VMS machines as well
>>as my Amiga at home.  ZOO has a wider range of platforms supported and, so, I
>> [...more stuff deleted...]
>>1. More supported operating systems.
Lharc was originally written for MSD*S machines.  It was later ported to Un*x.
And later ported to the Amiga.  That's at least 3 operating systems (if you
count all the variations of Un*x as 1 :).  So far, (to my knowledge) the Un*x
version has compiled 'ok' on several BSD4.3 machines--Vax, Sun, Apollo

(You can ftp the .zuu Un*x Lharc source code from utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
[133.11.7.250], or I could mail it.)

>>2. Better compression algorithms.
Lharc certainly has better compression than zoo.  Anyone want to tackle the
source code with an assembler ? :)  Lharc 1.1 is supposedly faster.

>>3. More flexibility in its options.
Amiga lharc 1.00 has added more options.  Or do you mean you'd prefer zoo-like
options ?  Maybe the author of Amiga zoo is listening...