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From: bobmon@iucs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SQUASHED!
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 11:07:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 11:07:06 1987
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Reply-To: bobmon@iucs.UUCP (Che' Flamingo)
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jdia@osiris.UUCP (Josh Diamond) writes:
>
>I agree that Squashing is a good idea, and that PKARC/PKXARC are good
>programs.
>
>But if Phil Katz is such a great dude, why won't he let us get a compatible
>arc on unix?  He could publish a full description of the new compression
>technique, and the format of the new arc file. At he very least he could
>create a unix version himself.  That way he could keep all of the profits :-)

Perhaps Mr. Katz doesn't have access to a Unix box, or to these newsgroups.
It's not quite impossible that he's completely unfamiliar with VAXlike
environments...

While you're waiting for your flamethrowers to get up to operating temperature,
consider that SEA's ARC was written in "portable" C.  I recall reading that
PKARC was/is written in MASM, for speed.  If so, that would make it highly
non-portable.