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From: dragon@oliveb.UUCP (Give me a quarter or I'll touch you)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PKARC
Message-ID: <1924@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 18:57:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.1924
Posted: Thu Jul  9 18:57:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 07:06:16 EDT
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in article <1589@phred.UUCP>, craiga@phred.UUCP (Craig Arno  TE N9) says:
> 
> squashed entry, I rename to a .PKA extension (Phil Katz Arc).  I would
> tend to stay away from .ARK extensions because Bob Freed is working on
> a CP/M version of Arc that he will call NOAH that produces *.ARK files.
> Bob chose the .ARK extension to point out the fact that the archive was
> created on a CP/M system instead of MSDOS.  The resulting .ARK file is
> supposed to otherwise be compatible with the MSDOS verions of ARC.
>

A point I don't understand:  If the resultant ARC file is compatible with
the MS-DOS ARC files (especially the SEA ones) why bother giving then a
different extension?  I mean, ARC files created on any other computer (VAX,
Atari, Commodore, Amiga, and I know of people working on Mac versions)
still have the same extension--ARC.  Since all these files are compatible,
there isn't a reason to change the extension.

Whereas PKARC files aren't compatible...so there IS a reason to change the
extensions there.

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