SO> There is only one reason, but this one is crucial: ARJ has 
 SO> by far the better compression algorithm. Only RAR beats it
 SO> in several situations. ZIP is usually not worth mentioning. 
 SO> I must admit, though, that I have never used lh/2 and thus
 SO> cannot say anything about it.

I find lh/2 beats zip most of the time,  but not by any huge ammount.

I have tested the other archivers,  and have found the same thing --none of
them have "by far the better compression algorithm";  they are
all in the same ballpark,  given a variety of real-world files to compress.


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