pdccs@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Patrick Champion) (09/01/89)
After trying ARC, ZOO, PAK, ZIP, and LHARC, I have settled on LHARC as being consistenly better than all the rest. LHARC will compress files (admittedly just a little) that the others cant compress, and it compresses executables tremendously more than the rest. At least this is my experience. The one thing that is really lacking is the ability for an archive to span more than one floppy disk. I would really like to backup my entire hard disk with LHARC's compression but can't. Is anyone working on a version of LHARC that will do this???? One other question. After using Unix's COMPRESS on text files, I don't seem to be able to find an archiver for the PC that does as well. I used to get a 3 to 1 compression factor via COMPRESS. Does anyone have the algorithm for this?? It might be nice to build into Lharc when it detects a pure text file. If I have time I might do it, but I am not sure about having time in the next few weeks. Patrick Champion pdccs@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu soon to become unix.cis.pitt.edu