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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
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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!!!



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