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- From: william@cithara.login.qc.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: ARCLIST
- Message-ID: <kBJiwB3w165w@cithara.login.qc.ca>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:07:43 GMT
- References: <6csFwB7w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Organization: Organ Grinders Monkeys Union With Penguins As Mascots
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- rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Here's where I eat my words:
-
- > 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.
-
- Ahha, but Shez is never called by ARCLIST, as far as I know. Would an
- over-the-modem user have the ocassion or ability to use SHEZ? (sysops
- exclued).
-
- All I'd like is support for the ARJ format in the ARCLIST utility.
- Maybe I've missed something somewhere...
-
- ...
-
- Thanks for the mail, Sorry for the jab and dupe requests.
-
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- William Ross
- cithara Specalists in asbestos underwear
- since 1992 william@cithara.login.qc.ca
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