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From: dave@sun.soe (Dave Goldblatt)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Compression Standard Preliminary Vote (Complete)
Message-ID: <1376@sun.soe>
Date: 22 Sep 88 00:21:50 GMT
References: <67.23356BC2@isishq.math.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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From article <67.23356BC2@isishq.math.waterloo.edu>, by doug@isishq.math.waterloo.edu (Doug Thompson):
> 
> Actually, not really. PKARC can create files which ARC cannot unpack. 
> While most of the time the two really are compatible, this is not always 
> true. ARC E is not guaranteed to unarc an archive made with pkarc, 
> unless pkarc is invoked with the arguement "-oc". 
>  

If 13-bit LZ is used (aka "squashing"), standard SEA ARC will not be able
to extract the files.  However, the latest versions (since April, I think)
of ARCE also will extract "squashed" files.

As an aside, I've heard that SEA signed an agreement with Vernon Buerg in
which he is allowed to distribute ARCE, ARCA, etc., as shareware..

-dg-

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