Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxy!vg55611 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 References: 642@cgh.UUCP <231NU013809@NDSUVM1> <1262@osiris.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 20 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 Also, seems to me that the major objection to squashing is that it is an unpublished algorithm and, if the creator of an algorithm wants it to become a standard, it has to be a known algorithm.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 ihnp4!ihuxy!vg55611