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From: gmd1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Doughty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SQUASHED!
Message-ID: <1776@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 16:34:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpf.1776
Posted: Sun Jul  5 16:34:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 22:47:26 EDT
References: <642@cgh.UUCP> <10710@clyde.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 21
Keywords: ARC, PKARC, squashed, STANDARDS
Summary: portability

In article <10710@clyde.ATT.COM>, feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
> 
> Why all this refusal to accept improvements and innovation? Are
> we turning into a bunch of Luddites?
>
>	etc.
> 
> Come on guys, get with it!!
> 
> Forrest Gehrke

There is one very important difference between ARC and PKARC.  The
author's of ARC have released the sources.  Consequently ARC can be
ported onto other systems (such as UNIX) without writing an equivalent
program from scratch.  Thus ARC'd files are portable between many
different machines while PKARC files are restricted to the PC.
That along should justify PKARC using a different file extension
than '.arc'.

Greg Doughty
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