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to: JESSE DOOLING
from: ROBERT JUNG
date: 1997-03-29 11:31:00
subject: JAR and ARJ

In a message of , Jesse Dooling (1:167/200) writes: 
 RJ> Thank you for the comments.  That is why I will continue to enhance
 RJ> ARJ along with JAR.
 JD>        I noticed that multiple volumes with JAR don't work quite de same 
 JD> yet
 JD> like the ARJ volumes. With JAR I can't extract a single file from a 
 JD> single
 JD> volume without the last volume. Personnally I think it would be better 
 JD> if it
 JD> would be possible to extract a single file from a volume without having 
 JD> to
 JD> use the last volume.
When one switches over to solid archive technology, a lot of design changes 
are made to accomodate it.  I agree with your opinion.  That is why ARJ is 
the way it is but JAR cannot support that feature and provide the greatest 
compression.
Regards,
Robert
 
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