Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe!dave 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 Lines: 22 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- -- Internet: dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu or: dave@clutx.clarkson.edu BITNET: dave@CLUTX.Bitnet uucp: {rpics, gould}!clutx!dave Matrix: Dave Goldblatt @ 1:260/360 ICBM: Why do you want to know? :-)