Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!okstate.UUCP!uokvax.UUCP!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Squeezing And Unsqueezing Files Message-ID: <3400080@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-May-86 14:36:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uokvax.3400080 Posted: Tue May 27 14:36:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 30-May-86 08:33:28 EDT References: <142@umix.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:umix.UUCP:142:uokvax.UUCP:3400080:000:696 Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!emjej May 27 13:36:00 1986 /* Written 11:48 pm May 21, 1986 by emv@umix.UUCP in net.micro */ Vern Buerg, author of many excellent pc utilities like LIST, is working on versions of ARC functions that are small and fast. Three that he has released so far are: arce extract-only arcv directory listing only arca add only /* End of text from net.micro */ Hmmm...this is all well and good, but--any archiving scheme that is adopted should be available in source form, and should be such that it can work even on small machines (which rules out stuff that uses Lempel-Ziv with tables too big to fit in a 64K address space). See earlier posting by