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From: hartung@amos.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung)
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Subject: Re: File Compression/Archiving
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Date: 28 Jul 90 23:50:46 GMT
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<In article <3200006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mjones@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
<>NAME        File Ext.       PC                 Mac                  Unix
<>
<>PAK         .PAK/.ARC   pak210.exe   2          ?                      -

In article <11946@hydra.gatech.EDU> scott@kong.UUCP (Scott Coulter) writes:
<To the extent of my knowledge, pak210 is a completely different critter
<from the many .arc-type programs, and uses strictly .pak extensions.
<There is often confusion due to pkpak, which is a .arc manipulator.

Actually, PAK will extract from any .ARC files, but produces .PAK
files which have a different compression algorithm than ARC uses.
I believe that it also handles "squashed" files (which some versions
of SEA's ARC do not handle).

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