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@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ must be given as command\-line arguments.
overwrites (making a backup) by default, and can append with the \fB\-a\fP
option.
.IP \(bu 2
+\fBLZ.COM\fP doesn\(aqt handle 0\-byte (empty) files correctly, but \fBalf\fP
+does. Not that this is very useful.
+.IP \(bu 2
Turning the screen off for speed makes no sense on modern operating
systems, so there\(aqs no option for that.
.UNINDENT
@@ -190,9 +193,6 @@ actually can\(aqt handle files above about 15MB, if you compress one with
a pathological case. A real Atari would take hours or even days to
compress/decompress such files, and you\(aqd have to have a hard disk and
a DOS capable of handling multi\-megabyte files...
-.sp
-It\(aqs also impossible to compress empty (0\-byte) files. \fBalf\fP will
-skip them, if any are found.
.SS Performance
.sp
Performance is \fIhorrible\fP\&. This shouldn\(aqt be a real problem on