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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
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Subject: A rose by any other name
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Date: 9 Oct 89 21:26:28 GMT
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A brief history of an archiver:

May - started out only able to file the contents of NuFX archives.  So,
      I called it NuView.

Aug - (or so) It was able to most of the things you'd expect from an
      archive, so I called it NuARC.

Sep - SeaWare owns ARC, and doesn't like it when people even *think*
      about using those three letters in a program name.  So, it
      becomes CShrink (Shrinkit-compatible archiver written in C).

Oct - Guess which program is now commercial?  L&L own ShrinkIt, so I
      can't use "Shrink" or "It" in the name.

Today - I don't know what the hell to call it.  Suggestions are welcome.

The best I can think of is "NuSquish" (nusq).  I don't want to use
SQueeze to avoid confusion, and "Squash" is too vegetarian for me.  If
you can think of a better one, or a good reason why NuSquish would be
a bad idea, please let me know via e-mail.

I'm gonna call it the "No-Name Archiver" (nna) if I can't get this
worked out.  Grrrr...


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