Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:17972 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:680 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!marob!manes From: manes@marob.MASA.COM (Steve Manes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: PK361.EXE Message-ID: <364@marob.MASA.COM> Date: 12 Aug 88 08:36:24 GMT References: <750@james.nprdc.arpa> Organization: ESCC New York City Lines: 17 From article <750@james.nprdc.arpa>, by malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy): > At least PKARC had the > -oct flags that let you write ARC files that SEA's ARC program would > read. What SHOULD have been done is that Squashed archives should have been given a default extension of .PKA or something similar. That seems so obvious as to be almost silly. After all, PK[X]ARC was the only program that could read that format so why maintain the .ARC extension unless your intent IS to confuse the market and reduce confidence in a competitor's product? Because of its speed and compactness, PKARC would have been just as successful either way. -- Steve Manes Roxy Recorders, Inc. Magpie-HQ BBS UUCP : {rutgers|cmcl2}!hombre!magpie!manes (212)420-0527 Smail: manes@MASA.COM