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There is a distinction between archivers and other compression programs:
- an archiver takes several input files, compresses them and produces a single archive file. Examples are arc, arj, lha, zip, zoo.
- other compression programs create one compressed file for each input file.
Examples are freeze, yabba, compress, gzip. Such programs are often combined with tar to create compressed archives.
As to which type of archiver or compression program you choose to use depends whether you favour speed, compression ratio, a standard and widely used archive format, the number of features.
The most common compression and archiver used on the Amiga is LHA/LZH (suffix .lha, .lzh;)
However, you are not limited to just this program. There are many other formats available that are support on the Amiga.
See common compression file formats for the description and usage of different formats.
Visit the Amiga Realm Software Directory where you can download the various types of archivers and compression tools available.
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