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Arj is also my favourite compression utility. Does anyone know where I
can download the latest shareware version on internet?

Thanks in advance.




> Simon Carter <sac@tusc.com.au> wrote:

>Darren Drysdale wrote:
>> What I am after is a Compression program (or backup program) which
>> will take a file of several MB and place it on several disks.  It
>> needs to have some sort of standalone executable file which will then
>> decompress and join the files at the other end.  It needs to be
>> standalone for ease of use at other end.

>Most of the previous responses talk about PkZip. Despite PkWare's
>advertising, it
>does not provide the best compression, and its multiple volume support
>_is_ abismal. 

>For multiple volumes I always use Arj. It provides better compression
>than
>*zip and its multi-volume support is excellent. Also, it does not store
>the
>volume catalog on the last disk (a thoroughly brain-dead approach). If
>you lose
>any one of the series of disks (including the last one), you can still
>extract most of the files (unlike PkZip where you lose the lot).

>Simon
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