Re: lha vs compress (use zip instead)

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:40

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In article <1gt7p3INNa8s@gap.caltech.edu> madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
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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.

    pkzip is better then lharc, but generally not better then lha. (make
    sure you are using lha, which is the -lh5- compression algorithm). I
    could be wrong, the only zip I have is on an IBM and I've no idea what
    version it is.  zip *is* faster.

    I tend to use lha/lharc because I can run it on my Amiga, PC's, AND my
    NeXT box.

					    -Matt

>Mark Adler
>madler@cco.caltech.edu

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