Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:2065 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:181 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen 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 Lines: 22 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) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me