Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!w8sdz From: w8sdz@brl-smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Phil Katz's bad form Message-ID: <8151@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 24 Jun 88 16:32:50 GMT References: <5912@megaron.arizona.edu> <4499@killer.UUCP> <1861@aecom.YU.EDU> Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 5 Someone suggested that Phil Katz should have used .ARK for a file extension. That is already in use by the CP/M program that makes MSDOS-compatible archives. The .ARK extension was chosen to indicate that the program was for CP/M rather than MSDOS because some BBS systems carry files for both operating systems.