Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dasys1!tneff From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Compression Standard Preliminary Vote (Complete) Message-ID: <6603@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 15:09:56 GMT References: <67.23356BC2@isishq.math.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: Independent Users Guild Lines: 18 In article <67.23356BC2@isishq.math.waterloo.edu> doug@isishq.math.waterloo.edu (Doug Thompson) writes: > TN> ... 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". Actually, not really. The most recent versions of ARC.EXE and ARCE.COM (i.e., within the past six months) handle squashing just fine. There is supposedly even a Unix port that does, although I haven't seen it. (If there isn't, it would be folly to select anything with squashing for Usenet anyway.) -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: t.neff (no kidding)