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From: pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: file compression/archiving
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Date: 31 Aug 90 11:49:22 GMT
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>/ hpavla:comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d / david@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG (David Deitch) / 10:06 pm  Aug 27, 1990 /
>In a message of <Aug 28 04:00> Timo Salmi LASK (ts@uwasa.fi ) writes:
>
> > Not the latest.  We have arc602.exe available for anonymous ftp at
> > our site, and if there are still more recent versions we'd be
> > pleased to know, since 6.02 dates back to May 1989 at least. 
>
>     Still not the latest!  SEA recently introduced ARC v7.0.  This 
>time, though, it is not being distributed as shareware.  Commercial 
>only.  As you can imagine, this is causing quite a stir in the BBS 
>world!
>

Why???  I thought most BBSs had given up on ARC back when Phil Katz had to
stop selling PKARC.  Who cares if ARC v7 is not shareware - I don't know of
anyone still USING ARC.

						Mark