Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!lsuc!jimomura
From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: Re: lharc woes (AGAIN, was Is musedt.lzh corrupted?)
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 15:01:09 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.150109.3946@lsuc.on.ca>
References: <1991Jun18.151348.795@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1991Jun19.012653.8005@convex.com>

In article <1991Jun19.012653.8005@convex.com> rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz) writes:
>
>as an (outspoken?) opponent of lharc (until it gets it sh*t together),
>i read with interest a previous post about testing at least a dozen
>(!!!!!!!) versions of lharc on a particularly nasty file. since at least
>one of them (2, i think) worked, the file COULD be considered "good"
>(not by ME or any other sane, rational user, however).
>
>then i came across this gem:
>
>In article <1991Jun18.151348.795@ccu.umanitoba.ca> bright@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bob Bright) writes:
>>(To all the progenitors of lharc and .lzh files: I hope you die a
>>thousand miserable deaths, choking forever on the few megs of disk
>>space you've managed to save the world at the expense of countless
>>hours of frustration and wasted time and net bandwidth.)
>
>i LOVE this guy. he hits the point home! "a pox on you [lharc-ers] and
>all your ancesters" as ed norton would say :-).
>
>and NO, as much as i would REALLY like to, i will NOT eat my words (yet :-)
>
>so you STILL think i am nuts? (rhetorical: don't answer that... :-)
>

     Well, I wouldn't exactly say that, but I agree that all the
incompatible versions are bad enough that I won't support LHARC
for the time being either.  In retrospect, the law suit against
Phil Katz by the originator or "ARC" was right too.  Katz was on
the same road to messing up the .arc file standard that these
guys are on with .lzh files.  The only things I use by choice now
are ARC 6.02 and Zoo.  At least I know with some certainty that
anyone on almost any computer in the world will be able to unpack
these and with a minimum of frustration due to "incompatible versions."


-- 
Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880
lsuc!jimomura
Byte Information eXchange: jimomura