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		reiichiroh on Jan 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil ... For some reason I always preferred ARJ in those days

fullstop on Jan 19, 2021 [–]

It was useful for multi-volume archives that would fit on floppy disks.

pacificmint on Jan 19, 2021 | [–]

And utilize them perfectly. Other compression programs would not split a file between two disks, and therefore always leave some unused space. ARJ multi volume archives utilized the floppy capacity to 100%.

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