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From: dlnash@ut-ngp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: arc
Message-ID: <4564@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 15:55:27 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.4564
Posted: Sat Jan 24 15:55:27 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Jan-87 03:17:06 EST
References: <374@mipos3.UUCP> <629@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <456@catnip.UUCP>
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: arc pkarc ibmpc bsd vms

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.
> 

PKXARC may be faster than ARC, but it only extracts files from archives. 
A separate program, PKARC, is needed to create archives.  I find this to
be a real bother, especially since ARC does both.  Besides, ARC was
recently ported to BSD and I am putting the finishing touches on a VMS
version which I will post soon.  Each can read and write archives
written by the other two, and hopefully archives written by PKARC. 
PKXARC and PKARC are written in MASM if I remember right, so it is
unlikely that they will be ported to other systems. 

I think that in the future, we may see people using ARC on mainframes of
various flavors and using PKARC on PCs. 

				Don Nash

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