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- From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: ARCLIST
- Message-ID: <6csFwB7w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 04:30:16 CST
- References: <FD1ewB1w165w@cithara.login.qc.ca>
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- william@cithara.login.qc.ca writes:
-
- | > How did arj get popular?
- |
- | I like it because it's a single executeabe.
-
- So is LHA.
-
- | > Sure, it's compression ratios are good, but the thing is a memory hog.
- |
- | Maybe. But ARJ runs in a 320k shell from Waffle. (make, list or extract)
- | I suppose if I were running Waffle in 256k there would be problems, but
- | for all practical purposes I doubt that anyone is out there running a
- | public Waffle on less than, say 512K.
-
- I'm running FroDo+Waffle inside a 450K DesqView window (as big as I could
- make it). I don't know if ARJ would run out of space, but it is constantly
- forcing Shez to swap out of memory to make room for it -- no other archiver
- does that.
-
- Besides, ARJ is shareware as I remember - so is ZIP. I'm considering a
- switch to LHA - Freeware - the way software should be.
-
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