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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!madler
  2. From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
  4. Subject: Re:  lha vs compress
  5. Date: 23 Dec 1992 06:32:04 GMT
  6. Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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  8. Message-ID: <1h9154INNsaa@gap.caltech.edu>
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  13. >> In general lha offers better compression than zip. Best
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  15. Maybe zip 1.1, but not zip 1.9--it does consistently better than lha.
  16. And is faster, as you noted.
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  18. mark
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