Hello Bob,

>As the market shook out, ZIP became the lingua franca (but not PK's proprietar
> 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 combinatio
> for my limited hard drive space at the time) and LHA. Nowadays, I mostly just
> use generic Info-Zip on everything.

Same here, pretty much.  Once in a while I do use RAR since it's also
available for linux.. depends on the type of compressing I'm doing.  The
latest version of RAR is much faster than earlier versions.

Take care,
Janis

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