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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>
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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.

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