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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
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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.  


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