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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
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Subject: Re: PKX33A12 - a shareware archiving program
Message-ID: <635@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 11:39:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  5 11:39:27 1986
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In article <2690@osu-eddie.UUCP> mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>I think I have found a bug in this program.  If I have a directory full
>of files, one of which is an archive named bar.arc, and I issue the
>command "pkarc a foo *.*" I should end up with an archive called
>foo.arc, which contains bar.arc and all the other files that are in
>the directory.
>
>Now try to extract bar.arc from foo.arc.  It won't work, giving a
>phantom error which combines 'bar.arc' and the name of the first file in
>the archive. 
>
>So, be careful about not archiving archives.
>

Which version of ARC are you using?  When a friend and I, using ARC
5.12, I think, tried ARCing an ARC file, it just came up with another
ARC file (which unpacked just fine) that was somewhat longer than the
other (I would assume that this is because the compression used was
optimal the first time, BTW).

I suppose my I may be losing my mind (it's been months since we did
this) but I am pretty sure we unpacked it.  Anyone with ARC handy care
to retry it?  It may be a small bug (little is still bad, tho) that
only shows up occasionally.  Also, the ARC file we used was nearly 1Mb
unpacked, about 350K packed.
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