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From: anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: arc-compatible
Keywords: arc, Mac, PC
Message-ID: <48326@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 91 19:37:09 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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I'm looking to write a program on the Macintosh that will
take an ASCII-only file and create an arc file that can
be de-compressed by a PC on the other end of a modem.

I have already tried the commercial Mac products that claim
to be able to do this, and they can't.

Does anyone here know where I might find a description of
the arc file format so that I may do my own arc-compatible
compression? I know little about PC's, so if there is a better
(or more widely used) compression standard, I'd like to hear
about it. I would need some reference on how to create the
file...

Thanks in advance...
                                      --clark
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