Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!jjboritz From: jjboritz@watdragon.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: What ARC does when it sees a squashed file Message-ID: <3047@watdragon.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 12:59:43 EDT Article-I.D.: watdrago.3047 Posted: Wed Jul 8 12:59:43 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 02:01:23 EDT References: <3187@ptsfa.UUCP> <4587@iucs.UUCP> Reply-To: jjboritz@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Jim Boritz) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 20 Summary: It's insulting actually. When ARC comes across a file in an archive that is listed as being squashed it does not simply issue an error message such as: Unknown compression format Instead it tells you that there is an error in the archive, and suggests that you don't know how to use the ARC program, and should go read the manual. I thought that for a quasi-commercial piece of software, the error message was improper and insulting. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ /| "Cat's don't look up to anyone." | | \`O_o' "Especially not human beings!" -- Stephen Baker | | ( ) How to Live With a | | U Jim Boritz Neurotic Cat | | | | Ack! lotsofmachines!watmath!watdragon!jjboritz | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+