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From: ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: file compression/archiving
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Date: 1 Sep 90 03:50:02 GMT
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pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer) writes:

> 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.

I never could get zoo or unzip to compile under UMAX 4.3.  I'm using arc.
I would hazard a guess that it is among the top utilities of its type in
the world, in terms of usage.

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