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Article #4487Re: lha vs compress (use zip instead)
From: Mark Adler
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:11
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:11
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>> to anyone who is having disk-space problems that unix 'lha' (of lharc >> fame) does a hellofabetter job compressing stuff the compress. And zip does better than lha, and is faster. And is far more portable. And works as a filter. And lots more. It is on the usual NeXT archive sites in both source and compiled forms. It is also on the NeXT Educational Sampler CD. If you want the very best compression, you can pay a quite reasonable price and get Squash, which in its high compression mode compresses better than zip, but at the cost of being rather a lot slower. Mark Adler madler@cco.caltech.edu
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