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From: kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski)
Subject: Compression on Unix machines
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Reply-To: kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski)
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Date: 25 Mar 91 00:50:30 GMT
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     I'm sure this newsgroup is intended to have more useful purposes than
this, but I have decided to post a question to the group anyway because it is
something I have been curious about for a long time. What is currently the
best compression/decompression package that is available for most (if not all)
Unix machines and smaller machines like PCs/Macs/Amigas as well? I've seen it
change over the past few years and I have been very out of touch with
compression and decompression packages as of late.
     My search for such packages began a while back when I was trying to find a
decent package for our 3B2 machines. All we had was Unix compression/tar, zoo,
and arc. I like a compressed tar as much as the next guy, but if I give it to
my friend with an IBM PS/2 model 30 there's not a chance he can undo it on his
machine. Zoo seemed ok, but it was slow, not that compressed, and a pain in
the butt to include directories on. Arc was just blah. I wanted to her Lharc,
but the package I tried was only designed to work on BSD and SunOS machines.
Now I hear something of a new package called Lhice. Does anyone have any
thoughts on it?... as I have not seen it at all. If anyone knows of good
packages that will run on a 3B2 (SysV) could you supply an FTP address where I
might find such things?

Thanks!

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