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From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ARC (was Retraction - don't ARC)
Message-ID: <2201@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 14:52:58 EST
Article-I.D.: alvin.2201
Posted: Sun Apr 12 14:52:58 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Apr-87 06:19:55 EST
Reply-To: ravi@alvin.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
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Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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Summary: It's not quite that bad!

In article <6261@ukma.ms.uky.csnet> sean@ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) writes:
>That may result in a few saved bytes for Usenet, but it will inconvenience a
>lot of users.  ARC does two things: archiving and compressing.  For those that
>use xmodem, they must download sources one file at a time.  With ARC, they
>can do one transfer and get the whole mess.  AND it insures that file padding
>will not invalidate an executable binary.
>
	The recent posting of ARC (for Unix) works beautifully with
the micro versions of ARC (on the Amiga & ST at least).  I've found
that a nice alternative to transferring bunches of files one by one
with x/y/zmodem (which I prefer because its faster than kermit) is to make
an archive on the vax and split it up after downloading..  Also,
it's nice to be able to check a posted archive's integrity first,
instead of going through all the trouble of downloading it only to
find that it's messed up.

	(This doesn't have to do with the earlier arc/not-arc debate,
but it's made my life easier on many occasions).


								-ravi