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From: dbercel@sun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SQUASHED!
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Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 00:52:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  9 00:52:47 1987
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Reply-To: dbercel@sun.UUCP (Danielle Bercel, MIS Systems Programming)
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In article <2022@ihuxy.ATT.COM> vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (gopal) writes:
>objection to squashing is that it is an unpublished algorithm and, if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
>ihnp4!ihuxy!vg55611

I'm finding that on the majority of systems in the bay area PKARC
with squashing is indeed becoming the standard. In some cases
SYSOPS are announcing this in logon bulletins but in a few cases
they are not.

My personal preference is to use PKARC and PKXARC for everything
I do because the speed is impressive. However, it does appear
that with, or without, published specs it is starting to become
the standard. At least around my area it appears to be. Is
anyone else experiencing this?


danielle