Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!amdcad!sun!dbercel From: dbercel@sun.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SQUASHED! Message-ID: <23007@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 00:52:47 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.23007 Posted: Thu Jul 9 00:52:47 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 17:55:25 EDT References: <642@cgh.UUCP> <231NU013809@NDSUVM1> <1262@osiris.UUCP> <2022@ihuxy.ATT.COM> Reply-To: dbercel@sun.UUCP (Danielle Bercel, MIS Systems Programming) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21 In article <2022@ihuxy.ATT.COM> vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (gopal) writes: >objection to squashing is that it is an unpublished algorithm and, if >the creator of an algorithm wants it to become a standard, it has to be a >known algorithm. > >Venu P. Gopal >ihnp4!ihuxy!vg55611 I'm finding that on the majority of systems in the bay area PKARC with squashing is indeed becoming the standard. In some cases SYSOPS are announcing this in logon bulletins but in a few cases they are not. My personal preference is to use PKARC and PKXARC for everything I do because the speed is impressive. However, it does appear that with, or without, published specs it is starting to become the standard. At least around my area it appears to be. Is anyone else experiencing this? danielle