Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!uwvax!oddjob!mimsy!aplcen!osiris!jdia From: jdia@osiris.UUCP (Josh Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SQUASHED! Message-ID: <1284@osiris.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 13:59:16 EDT Article-I.D.: osiris.1284 Posted: Thu Jul 9 13:59:16 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 06:59:18 EDT References: <642@cgh.UUCP> <231NU013809@NDSUVM1> <1262@osiris.UUCP> <4591@iucs.UUCP> Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital Lines: 39 In article <4591@iucs.UUCP>, bobmon@iucs.UUCP (Che' Flamingo) writes: > 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 :-) > > 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. I seem to recall that my original request was that he PUBLISH THE FORMAT OF HIS NEW COMPRESSION SCHEME so that *WE* CAN DESIGN A COMPATIBLE ARCer for unix or vms or whatever. Publish does not mean post; for all I care he can sell a book about it, or sell an article about it to one of the PC magazines The question here is not speed. I don't care about the speed -- on a real machine like a vax, or a pyramid, the gain of going to assembly isn't necessary. The problem is that *I* would like to have a squashing compatible arc on systems other than MeSs-DOS/IBM-PieceofCrap, because it would be even faster than pkarc, and because I like squashing, and because I like to archive my files on a unix system, to take some of the load off of my IBM-PieceofCrap's measly small hard disk. Spidey!!! -- We're on an express elevator to hell -- GOING DOWN!!! /\ Josh /\ THRILL //\\ .. //\\ SEEKERS A message from Spidey, and the Spidey Team. ----->>> //\(( ))/\\ UNITE!!! Available via UUCP: ...[seismo,mimsy]!jhu!osiris!jdia / < `>command