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From: ddb@viper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Continued use of ARC (vs PKARC)
Message-ID: <459@viper.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Jan-87 14:52:20 EST
Article-I.D.: viper.459
Posted: Sun Jan 25 14:52:20 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Jan-87 02:22:23 EST
References: <374@mipos3.UUCP> <629@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <456@catnip.UUCP>
Reply-To: ddb@viper.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Organization: Terrabit Software
Lines: 19
Keywords: arc ibmpc
Summary: Not fully compatible
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In article <456@catnip.UUCP> ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder) writes:
>Actually, I can't believe that people are still using ARC.  Phil Katz's
>PKXARC program is about 10 times the speed of the original arc, produces
>archives 100% compatible with SEAware arc, and is a pleasure to use.

Actually, the latest PKARC I have isn't 100% compatible -- its
"squash" compression can't be unpacked by ARC.  There is a switch
to prevent use of squashing.  Also, because it's two different programs
(for arc and unarc), and the commands are different, it's a shock to
switch over; and moderately inconvenient in some ways (for example, I
used to do a listing of an archive, then recall the command and edit
the l to an x to extract everythin).

And I'm using PKARC anyway, because it's SO much faster.

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