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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

2976.0. "New Uploads" by MCDNLD::MACDONALD () Mon Oct 02 1989 11:53

    I've uploaded several late releases of various programs to 
    
    DICKNS::USER:[MACDONALD.AMIGA.NEW]
    
    Included are,
    
    PowerPacker V2.3A
    SuperView V3.0
    ScripIt V1.1
    Lharc V0.5
                                  
    and some others.
    
    Note that all these files are archived with Lharc. Lharc is considered
    the new standard for archiving Amiga files! I've included ARC'ed
    and ZOO'ed versions of Lharc in the directory. Files archived with
    Lharc have .LZH filenames and are substantially smaller than their
    ARC'ed or ZOO'ed counterparts.
    
    Perhaps someone would care to copy them over to one of the larger
    Amiga libraries on the network before I delete them?
    
    -Paul

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2976.1	Protection, pluheeze!	FRAMBO::BALZER	Christian Balzer DTN:785-1029	`Mon Oct 02 1989 12:31`	12
	Erh, uhm, Paul, how about setting the protections in a way that will allow us lower lifeforms to sneak that stuff from your directory? ;-) ;-) ;-) BTW, I personally will not switch from ZOO to LHARC before LHARC will adopt some ZOO functions like directory structures, etc. I could live with it's speed, since it produces smaller results, but still... Regards, <CB>
2976.2	Still prefer .ZOO's	CGOFS::DREW	Steve Drew	`Mon Oct 02 1989 13:08`	9
	We agree, ZOO works nicely on VMS and supports all directory structures properly. Personally I would'nt switch to LHARC just to save a few more bytes of storage. We just about always unarc or unzoo on VMS to read the docs first, before deciding to download. /* The CGO guys */
2976.3	Yup!	FRAMBO::BALZER	Christian Balzer DTN:785-1029	`Mon Oct 02 1989 13:13`	13
	Re: .2 RIGHT! I almost forgot about this aspect, but I just started my UseNet NEWS extract batch job that zoo's todays worth of news and shuffles them afterwards down to the A500. But what about those pesky protections, Paul? Are you having lunch or what? I'm about to go home. ;-) Regards, <CB>
2976.4		DICKNS::MACDONALD	WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25	`Mon Oct 02 1989 13:15`	1
	Hmm .. lemme check!
2976.5		LEVERS::PLOUFF	can't memorize Zen...	`Wed Oct 04 1989 15:28`	17
	Interestingly, the source to the LHARC compression algorithm was published last May on the Usenet newsgroup comp.binaries.ibm.pc. The moderator of that group is Rahul Dhesi, who is also the author of ZOO. Perhaps Mr. Dhesi can be persuaded to add hybrid Huffman-LZW coding as another ZOO compression scheme. I agree with previous replies that ZOO's support for full Amiga filenames is a strong argument in favor of not switching. The source archive, which will compress or decompress one MS-DOS file at a time, is at CSCMAS::SYS$MSDOS:[ARC-LBR]LZHSRC10.ARC Let's see... compress, ARC, ZOO, PAK, ZIP, WARP, Powerpacker, LHARC -- how many "standards" do we really need for disk/file compression? Wes