Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ogicse!plains!jnelson From: jnelson@plains.NoDak.edu (Jim Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: file compression/archiving Message-ID: <5807@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 10 Sep 90 16:43:12 GMT References: <3200008@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <16480001@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> Organization: Who, us? Lines: 29 In article <16480001@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer) writes: >>/ hpavla:comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d / david@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG (David Deitch) / 10:06 pm Aug 27, 1990 / >>In a message of Timo Salmi LASK (ts@uwasa.fi ) writes: [stuff deleted] >> >> 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. Ditto. I run a bbs here in Fargo. Since the SEA/PKWare suit, almost all of my uploads have been in ZIP format. The balance has been ZOO/LZH format. The only reason I still have some ARC files is that the bbs system I use expects that once the files have been uploaded, they never change. Although, since I am switching to a new bbs system, I am going to run a neat little program called 2ZIP, which converts other formats to ZIP. I don't remember who wrote it, but I and other sysops appreciate his effort. -- .sig? What .sig? Ohhhh, *THIS* .sig. Jim, in the Land of the Lost. disclaimer: These are just opinions. If you want 'em, you can have 'em.