From: rbs{at}snippets.org
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To: kkuzba{at}centurytel.net (Kurt Kuzba)
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Quoting Kurt Kuzba :

> BS> KK>  There seems to be a lot of .arj files.  I don't even
> BS> KK>  remember what archiver format that is.
>
> BS>  ARJ - what else? ;-)
>
>  Yup.  That sounds about right.  And that's just about all I
>  remember about it, too.  :)

ARJ and several others were quite popular in the late-80's, early-90's period.
As the market shook out, ZIP became the lingua franca (but not PK's proprietary
PKZip) with tarballs a close second. Of the early challengers, the only one I
really used was RAR which compressed better, but was slower (a good combination
for my limited hard drive space at the time) and LHA. Nowadays, I mostly just
use generic Info-Zip on everything. Every new machine I get seems to have
WinZip on it, but I use Total Commander http://www.ghisler.com/> as my file
manager and it has an Info-Zip engine built into it (it also works seamlessly
with RAR, TAR, GZ, TGZ, ARJ, UC2, LHA, & ACE. I have everything enabled except
ACE since I have yet to ever run across an ACE file...) I still occasionally
use LZE for creating compressed executables - they can be handy when working
with a tight flash pseudo-disk on an embedded DOS system.

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