Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/10/17:57:16
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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