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From: bayers@hub.cs.jmu.edu (brian ayers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: arc 602 (was Hackman II)
Summary: arc 602 is easier to use than zoo for subdirectories
Keywords: arc,zoo,lharc,lzh
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.015832.10177@hub.cs.jmu.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 90 01:58:32 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: James Madison University
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>I don't know what all this fuss about 'broken' versions of hacman II
>is all about. I did a zoo x hacman2.zoo and got everything in the same
>directory. Tried to run it, realized that there were subdirectories
>involved, and deleted each file, and did a zoo x.// (or whatever it is) and
>it extracted with subdirectories.

What's wrong with arc 602?  It is so automatic it isn't even funny.
It will create the needed subdirectories "anchored" in the current
directory without any extra commands, just: "arc x arcname",
quite a far call from zoo, and it's archives are more compact than
zoo's too from the tests that I've done.  I especially like the
fact that arc is compatible in the DOS and Mac environments too
since I have a consulting job which uses these.  Anyone interested
can find it at atari.archive.umich.edu under the atari/utilities/archivers
directory.  I highly recommend it.

JT
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