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echo: arj
to: MICHAEL AYRES
from: RAYMOND BRODEUR
date: 1997-10-06 02:24:00
subject: Why Arj?

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-> REPLY: 1:167/580 f77efc34
-> Hello Raymond:
->  > I never understood why people like ARJ so much..
->   Different strokes, y'know.  ;-)
->  > it's a very big EXE file,
->   Hmmm.
-> ARJ      EXE    116260 06-04-93   9:19a
->   1 file(s)     116260 bytes
-> PKUNZIP  EXE     28959 02-01-93   2:04a
-> PKZIP    EXE     42552 02-01-93   2:04a
-> PKZIPFIX EXE      7687 02-01-93   2:04a
-> ZIP2EXE  EXE     26851 02-01-93   2:04a
->   4 file(s)     106049 bytes
-> RAR      EXE    104319 02-22-97  12:27a
-> UNRAR    EXE     32037 01-01-97   6:54p
->   2 file(s)     136356 bytes
->   Maybe not so enormous.  10,211 bytes larger than the PKWare utils.  
-> Not a problem for many people.
Note: For RAR, you only need RAR.EXE .... it can uncompress too... 
(RAR e lalala.rar) hehehe...
How about LHA, eh? Hehe... that's one of my favorites for the SFX... it
only adds about 2Kb to the file, instead of almost doubling it!
Ray
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