Re: Compression Utility

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From: Wee-Keong LIM
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 00:00

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In article <57gbgr$b67@madrid.visi.net> j sharp writes:
>In article <56ti2u$jvd$1@gollum.kingston.net>, cdrom@borg.com says...
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>>Laboch@t-online.de (Christiane + Mario Laboch) wrote:
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>>>darrendr@powerup.com.au (Darren Drysdale) wrote:
>
>I would suggest using PKZip 2.04g to compress files across multiple 
>floppies.  There is a file called Zip2Exe that converts the 
>compressed file into a self-extracing .EXE file.  This is how the big boys 
>in the industry do it.  Both can be had as shareware....good luck

I prefer ARJ for multi-disk archives.  It's handling is much neater.
You can even do it on a hard disk and copy the archive files to floppy
later.  Furthermore, each sub-archive is a proper ARJ in itself, unlike
ZIPs.  This means no swapping to find the last disk in the archive, then
swapping back to the first disk to start decompressing.

Keong
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From: keong@deepdene.ecr.mu.oz.au (Wee-Keong LIM)
Subject: Re: Compression Utility
Date: 1996/12/03
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