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From: perry@omepd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Incompatibilities Re: pkarc v3.5 and arc v5.20
Message-ID: <780@omepd>
Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 14:48:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: omepd.780
Posted: Wed Jun 10 14:48:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 08:15:05 EDT
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Reply-To: perry@inteloa.intel.com (Perry The Cynic)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
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Summary: No need to patch PKARC 3.5

In article <2129@whuts.UUCP> tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL) writes:
>
>HOWEVER, [soap box time], remember that pkarc in the Squashing mode
>results in a compressed file that is INCOMPATIBLE with SEA's ARC
>and every other ARC clone that I have access to.  I have posted to
>comp.sources.misc two patch files that correct this problem with
>no speed penalty, and less than 2% space penalty.  To beat the
>drum again: use pkarc, but patch it to the standard mode.

PKARC version 3.5 (the newest, fresh-from-the-press one) has a small
configuration file that it reads automatically when starting up.
A command in that file will make it SEA-ARC compatible. No need for
patches any more. A hooray for PKWare!

By the way, does anyone have information on a compression system called
*ZOO* (decompression program *LOOZ*)? OMEN tech. says that they are
changing to it, so I assume it must be considerably better than the
ol' ARChive format, but I have no hard info at all. Can anybody help?
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