Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!tornado!sideways!patrick From: patrick@sideways.gen.nz (Pat Cain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn,eunet.micro.acorn Subject: Re: 8-bit BBC postings Keywords: 8-bit Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 91 20:16:51 GMT References: <8694@star.cs.vu.nl> Organization: Sideways Bulletin Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Lines: 19 gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos) writes: > In the Netherlands, we use two programs which arc and unarc files. > The programs are called Xarc and ArcRom (both are Rom images). ArcRom is a > bit buggy for large files, but they work quite adequate. > They are compatible with both Messy-DOS Arc 5.1 and !Spark (at least 1.00), > but I'm not sure that there is a provision for load/exec addresses. > My solution usually is to include a file "ExecMe" which changes the > load/exec addresses when *EXEC'ed. > > If there is interest, i'll have a try at posting them (using Unix uuencode). > I'm interested, any version of uuencode except the Archimedes one should be fine.. I didn't realise there was a rom version of Arc for the beeb. Thanks. -- Patrick Cain, Private Box 2060, Wellington, New Zealand.