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I remember ARJ and all the rest of the non-zip compression formats. Back then you could almost be a collector and could certainly be a connoisseur. Fascinating
by joshspankit 5y ago
I remember ARJ and all the rest of the non-zip compression formats. Back then you could almost be a collector and could certainly be a connoisseur. Fascinating times.
- olvy0 5y agoYeah, I remember being so excited then whenever a new archiver would be released, and running comparisons between them, seeing which ones would compress stuff better than the other. Fun times.
- paulclinger 5y agoHa, I was doing exactly the same thing 30 years or so ago; even running comparisons between minor version releases. ARJ was doing very well compression- and performance-wise (and also had open unarj code as far as I remember).
- int_19h 5y agoI remember it was fairly typical in DOS days to have a separate directory under utilities just for the different archivers that you might need (ARJ/RAR/ZIP at the minimum, but often also ACE/ARC/ICE/LHA/UHA/ZOO).
- joshspankit 5y agoAnd the dreaded stuffit