pingel@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Pingel Dalsgaard) (04/21/91)
chuangss@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shyne Song Chuang) writes: >Hi there, >Just wanted to let you guys know that there's a new version of ARJ that's >out. Version 2 is *supposed* to compress as well as LHA 2.1x (gives perhaps >the best compression around) AND is supposed to compress as fast as PKZIP! >If any of you know an ftp site where it can be found, please mention it. >I got my copy of ARJ 2.0 from Delphi. >As usual, I haven't had time to test ARJ, so correct me if I'm wrong... But >that's what I read in the .doc file. >Cheers, >Kevin Oh yes ARJ is quite impressive, a BUG, however, has to be corrected soon (or else I need to re-read to "features" chapter of the documentation)! When using ARJ -t1 which is supposed to pack C program source files better than normal, it pack EXE files even better, by simply truncating the file to a size of 2Kb-3Kb!! I am mailing the author to find a solution to the problem. All other features seems OK, and it ranks with LHA now! -pingel ##################################################################### e-mail: pingel@daimi.aau.dk _____ __ __ __ _____ _____ __ or pingel@jt.dk | \| || \ |/ ___|| ___|| | Soren Pingel Dalsgaard, | ___/| || || (__ || _|_ | |__ Dept. of Computer Science, |__| |__||__\__|\_____||_____||_____| Aarhus University, Denmark "If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed civilization." - Gerald Weinberg "Share and enjoy" - From Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy #####################################################################
rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) (04/24/91)
In article <1991Apr21.155821.2884@daimi.aau.dk> pingel@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Pingel Dalsgaard) writes: >Oh yes ARJ is quite impressive, a BUG, however, has to be corrected soon >(or else I need to re-read to "features" chapter of the documentation)! > >When using ARJ -t1 which is supposed to pack C program source files >better than normal, it pack EXE files even better, by simply truncating >the file to a size of 2Kb-3Kb!! > >I am mailing the author to find a solution to the problem. All other >features seems OK, and it ranks with LHA now! This is in the documentation... in text mode, a CTRL-Z signals the end of a file. When it sees this (as might happen in a binary file), that's the end of the file. Suggested remedy: Don't use text mode on anything but text! You also might want to check the speed, text mode seems to be much slower on extraction.