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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PK ARC, Another View
Message-ID: <3273@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 22:44:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.3273
Posted: Mon Jul 20 22:44:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 10:40:24 EDT
References: <287@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com*<206900061@mirror> <2406@whuts.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <2406@whuts.UUCP> by tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL):
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| PKARC 3.5 and PKXARC 3.5 (the latest) hangs my machine so bad that
| not even my "cboot" or my "little red switch (boots without dis-
| turbing memory)" CANNOT FIX. I LOOSE HOURS OF WORK IN RAMDISK.
+---------------
My experience is that ARC has a tendency to infinite-loop on my machine on
corrupted archives (it can be ^C'ed, though), while PKXARC tells me the
archive is corrupted.
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| 4: Will not check if something has been previously archived
| and will re-archive. The user is left with the exercise
| of figuring out how "deep" the re-re-re-archiving got.
+---------------
As I remember it, this was considered a feature. I don't remember the
rationale.
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[Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery, all rights reserved]
[Redistribution permitted only if redistribution is subsequently permitted.]
Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc
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