Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!clio!berger From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Phil Katz's bad form Message-ID: <16800310@clio> Date: 27 Jun 88 20:10:00 GMT References: <1861@aecom.YU.EDU> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:aecom.YU.EDU:1861:clio:16800310:000:512 Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!berger Jun 27 15:10:00 1988 I can understand why Sea didn't take the bait and become compatible with pkarc. Until now, everybody who improved on Sea arc was respectful enough to maintain compatibility, and let Sea set the standards. Without defacto archive standards, we'd be back to having hundreds of competing programs without any compatibility. Mike Berger Department of Statistics Science, Technology, and Society University of Illinois berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu {ihnp4 | convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!berger