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From: apang@undergrad.cs.ubc.ca (Anthon 'Amiga' Pang)
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Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
Summary: Paraphrasing a bit of the wisdom of an Ami-Guru, Larry Phillips
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Date: 7 Mar 90 07:54:52 GMT
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In article <55.25f441b5@uoft02.utoledo.edu> grx1042@uoft02.utoledo.edu
(Steve Snodgrass) writes:
>I tend to agree with the criticisms of PKAZip.  From the looks of Lharc,
>LhArcA, and LHWarp, PKAZip is going to be (is being) blown out of the water by
>Lharc and its relatives/descendants anyway.  And 90K for a compression program
>is ridiculous.

Maybe on an Amiga without a harddrive, but with 3.5M RAM & 65M HD, it doesn't
make that much difference to _some_ users :).  (Here on our Un*x machines,
"zoo" is 89K and "lharc" is 165K !)

The size of the executable won't blow it away...it'll be judged/accepted on
its relative compression efficiency (% reduction), speed, and the user
interface (not particularly in that order), before it comes down to size of 
the binaries.  Archivers come & go.  In time, the majority will determine how 
frequently you use a particular archiver...at least, until a "better" archiver
appears.

I, personally, will not switch from "zoo" until a CLI oriented archiver comes
along, that's faster AND achieves similar/better compression AND provides a
similar list of switches & modifiers AND has a Un*x version as well
...so, I'm hard to please :-)

But, I am indifferent with regards to PKAZIP...it's possible it will one day
become the "people's archiver" (I didn't say how probable, though :)
Some may have the need to zip/unzip files for transferring to/from MSD*S
machines (where P.K. boasts its popularity).  And, then, there's some
Amigans who have yet to double click the CLI icon...

Enough rambling...better start studying for tomorrow's "mid-term" exam.