Version Twenty One, Archive Comparision Table            [05  February 1995]
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Here are my comments while creating this test:


AR        This program will not accept wildcards, so archiving a whole
          directory is not so easy.

ARI       Very slow.

CRUSH     Crush is not really an archiver, it's a bit like TAR, where is
          just stores all the files in one big file, and then lets another
          archiver do the work.  To use UCII r2 with v1.3, you need to make
          sure you have the files UUC.EXE & US.EXE (which come with UCII).

HA        Very slow.  But the latest beta version (v0.999b) is now even
          quicker when extracting.

IZIP386   This works much better and quicker if QEMM is not loaded.

JARCHIVE  Will not accept wildcards with directory paths.

LIMIT     v1.2, seems to be slightly quicker when compressing, but slower
          when extracting.

NULIB     This program will not accept wildcards, so archiving a whole
          directory is not so easy.

QUANTUM   Quantum really disagrees with QEMM, and would only work with QEMM
          unloaded.  Very slow when compressing.

SAR       This does not like paths in the command line.

SQWEZ     Remember, this program only creates self-extracting files.