Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!isishq!doug From: doug@isishq.math.waterloo.edu (Doug Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Compression Standard Preliminary Vote (Complete) Message-ID: <67.23356BC2@isishq.math.waterloo.edu> Date: 19 Sep 88 20:01:07 GMT Organization: International Student Information Service -- Headquarters Lines: 23 TN>From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) TN>Date: 13 Sep 88 18:50:54 GMT TN>There must have been some confusion in the way the compression standard TN>vote was conducted. The answers as tabulated seem like nonsense. The TN>only existing "PK" compression [actually packaging - bundling is involved TN>as well as compression] standard is the ARC format. There is no such TN>thing as a "fast" format or a "slow" format, only fast and slow utilities TN>to manipulate the format. Hence the first two entries ("ARC" and "PK") TN>in the vote tabulation really refer to the same thing. 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". -- Doug Thompson - via FidoNet node 1:221/162 UUCP: ...!watmath!isishq!doug Internet: doug@isishq.math.waterloo.edu