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echo: arj
to: JESSE DOOLING
from: RAYMOND BRODEUR
date: 1997-09-30 15:44:00
subject: Why Arj?

-> PID: OLMS 2.53p [EJCDE767]
-> MSGID: 1:167/200.0 072c5a94
-> TID: GE 1.11+
-> Hi,
->  RB> much.. it's a very big EXE file, the options can be found in most
->        The EXE contains the COMPRESSOR, the DECOMPRESSOR and the EXE to
-> create 2 different EXE type archives, NOT like Pkzip which has 156,000
-> different programs to do what ARJ does with ONE program. Arj is 115k
-> compressed with Pklite.
156,000 programs? Try 3...
->        PKZIP and PKUNZIP come up to about 71k, not including the EXE 
-> creator or the comment generator. ARJ is not really bigger.
Still, when you make an install program on a diskette, and you pkunzip,
it takes less space (even pkunzjr.com!) so it's better for that...
 ->
Aparently RAR may not work with some remote terminals -> because of it's
extended ASCII display. What do you mean? -> ARJ is easier to use than
Pkzip and RAR is only an ARJ rip-off ->  wannabe.  Woah, I beg to differ,
but a GUI is always more "fun" than  command shells...      
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