Message-ID: <32860FFA.30D1@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 18:25:14 +0100
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
Organization: Home, sweet home
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To: "Ondrej 'Moon Shade' Sury" <shade AT atrey DOT karlin DOT mff DOT cuni DOT cz>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Why not to use 'tar' before packing DJGPP?
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Ondrej 'Moon Shade' Sury wrote:
> 
> Mark Habersack (grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl) wrote:
> > That's right. Such a switch would take some time. Besides, I think DJ is
> > compressing DJGPP on Unix, and AFAIK there's no other common compressor
> > than ZIP or TAR on DOS and Unixes.
> 
>   Cut from 0index from ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/ :
> 
> rar_amy.lha     UnRAR for Amiga
> rar200.exe      RAR v2.00 (DOS)
> rar200p.exe     RAR v2.00 (OS/2)
> rar20bsd.sfx    RAR v2.00 beta-3 for Unix (BSD)
> rar20lnx.sfx    RAR v2.00 beta-3 for Unix (Linux)
> rar20sco.sfx    RAR v2.00 beta-3 for Unix (SCO)
Thanks for the info.

>   I use RAR for Linux and for BSD on school computer and they work
> even better, than RAR for DOS, 'cause you can set dictionary size up
> to 1024kB.
> 
Yes, the same features has RAR 2.0 for Win95/NT.
BTW. Are there any descriptions of the algorithm RAR uses? I'd like to
write a library (like zlib) to deal with RAR files.

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