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From: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What ARC does when it sees a squashed file
Message-ID: <645@cgh.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 10:34:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: cgh.645
Posted: Sun Jul 12 10:34:47 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jul-87 01:49:18 EDT
References: <3187@ptsfa.UUCP> <4587@iucs.UUCP> <3047@watdragon.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick)
Organization: Chimitt Gilman Homchick Inc., Radnor, PA
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Summary: Why should SEA ARC support PKARC squashing?

/* From <3047@watdragon.UUCP> (Jim Boritz) */
>When ARC comes across a file in an archive that is listed as being squashed
>it does not simply issue an error message such as: [...] it tells you that
>there is an error in the archive [...] I thought that for a quasi-commercial
>piece of software, the error message was improper and insulting.  

Oh, I don't know about that.  For those of you who have forgotten, PKARC is
a incompatible clone of SEA ARC.  And they are both somewhat "commercial"
programs competing with each other.  SEA ARC is the original.  Why should it
support Squashing?  If VP-Planner added a new feature to it's spreadsheet,
do you think that LOTUS would support it?  Would you expect them to?

The problem here is not SEA ARC, it is PKARC creating ".ARC" files which
are incompatible with the ARC standard.  Yes, PKARC/XARC are fast
programs, and yes, SQUASHING is somewhat more efficient, but using the
".ARC" extension on such files is somewhat misleading!
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Paul Homchick            {seismo | allegra | ihnp4 | rutgers} !cbmvax!cgh!paul
Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Inc.; One Radnor Station, Suite 300; Radnor, PA 19087