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From: grx1042@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Steve Snodgrass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
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Date: 8 Mar 90 01:17:25 GMT
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In article <1990Mar7.075452.17153@undergrad.cs.ubc.ca>, apang@undergrad.cs.ubc.ca (Anthon 'Amiga' Pang) writes:

> 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 

That's not my main point.  I agree that an archiver is going to be judged on
speed, compression, and interface.  The fact that PKZip is 90K (or thereabouts)
was just a side comment.

I regularly use Lharc 1.10 as my main means of compression.  Speed is not that
much of an object to me, and Lharc gets good compression.  PKZip's interface,
for me, immediately rules out using it.  I deal almost exclusively with the
CLI.  If they had written it as a command-line program, you could've used one
of the many disk utilities available that handle calling of archiving programs. 
LhArcA is out, now, with a graphic interface, (although it seems to have some
problems with PAL on A2500s, but I'm sure that will be fixed), and is very fast
for Huffman encoding.  I haven't compared it to Zip though.  Then there is
PKZip's ridiculous requirement that you have some damn license file in your S:
directory.  Sigh.

All in all, my main gripe is hardly with Zip's file size.

> 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

Lharc is available on PCs, in fact it originated there.

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