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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <10770@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 10 May 88 14:25:58 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <696@fig.bbn.com> <18621@watmath.waterloo.edu> <25925@clyde.ATT.COM> <307@cullsj.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <307@cullsj.UUCP> jeff@cullsj.UUCP (Jeffrey C. Fried) writes:

|    I recently acquired the ZOO executables from the net and found them to be
| incompatible with ARC.

  Correct. zoo is not "another arc file program," it is a totally
separate file structure, containing information which neither arc or
pkarc include.

|               The UNIX ARC i received over the net is compatible
| with ARC5.2.1 under DOS.  Has anyone else experienced this incompatibility?  

  Alas, there is no "the" UNIX arc, there are a number of slightly
diferent versions. If you have the one I suspect, it needs the "-i"
option to be compatible with the DOS arc. I highly commend switching the
meaning of that flag for default DOS compatibility.

  Actually I highly commend using zoo...
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me