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- From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
- Subject: Re: New PKZIP expected to ship week of Jan 4 1993
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:56:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <18913@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- KU> And, don't forget, if there were no people who wrote *new*
- KU> compressors, we would still be stuck with ARC...
- The thing is though, the very last version of ARC (Version 6.02)
- before SEA went commercial on some file can makes even smaller
- files than LHA or even ARJ, though this isn't always true.
-
- On the other hand, I like ZIP because it saves more bytes than
- PKZIP except in rare cases when the latter may result in compression
- better (!) than ZIP.
-
- --
- Stephen Kawamoto <a7657@mindlink.bc.ca>
- "It is the very mind itself
- That leads the mind astray;
- Of the mind,
- Do not be mindless."
- (an old Japanese folk song)
-