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
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 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". 
 
 

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