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From: vg55611@ihuxy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SQUASHED!
Message-ID: <2022@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 11:01:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxy.2022
Posted: Wed Jul  8 11:01:45 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 10:52:17 EDT
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Summary: Really  PKARC vs. ARC

In article <1262@osiris.UUCP>, jdia@osiris.UUCP (Josh Diamond) writes:
> 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 :-)
> 				Just a thought from...
> 						    Spidey!!!

Really, ladies and gentlemen - Let's not get kill or idolize personalities
here - after all, most of have an inkling of rationality within us.  Let us
look at the issue, not the people.  It is up to us to determine whether
to use PKARC or not.  It seems to me that most people who post would think
of NOT using squashing so as to reach the maximum number of people (otherwise,
why post it ?) given the current controversy.  Also, seems to me that the
major objection to squashing is that it is an unpublished algorithm and, if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
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