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From: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Public Archive Format Issues
Message-ID: <4272@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 11:45:49 GMT
References: <6050@spt.entity.com> <107990003@hpcuhc.HP.COM> <1990Sep27.043830.4907@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <1990Sep27.043830.4907@ddsw1.MCS.COM> hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen) writes:
>software for new machines and new versions of operating systems. Evidently
>Bill Goodman (Compacter author) is adamantly opposed to giving out his 
>file format (or at least this was stated in one message in the thread. I've
>not asked him personally to verify that statement). 

I have.  He lives in Boston and is active on the Boston Computer Society
BBS.  His feeling, and I agree with him, is there's no reason for him
to release his format when no one else is.  Why give all his commercial
competitors that advantage?

Ken


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