Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!violet.berkeley.edu!ephram From: ephram@violet.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Incompatibilities Re: pkarc v3.5 and arc v5.20 Message-ID: <4062@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 00:39:10 EDT Article-I.D.: jade.4062 Posted: Tue Jun 23 00:39:10 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Jun-87 07:12:36 EDT References: <4431@iuvax.UUCP> <2129@whuts.UUCP> <6005@brl-smoke.ARPA> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: ephram@violet.berkeley.edu () Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 Summary: pkxarc has buggs. In article <6005@brl-smoke.ARPA> w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) ) writes: >Why don't we chuck SEA's ARC and use PKARC exclusively? If SEA is >unresponsive to adding an abvious improvement, why should we all suffer >from having to deal with larger ARCs just to stay compatible with it? >PKARC is five times faster and makes smaller ARCs. > Have you ever tried to check an archive with pkxarc (/t I believe) ? Have you ever had to reboot your computer because the arc was munged and pkxarc hung the whole machine? Understand that I am not trying to defend exclusion of an important feature from a product, I am requesting that the bugs be worked out before everyone abandons the already working model. The new stuf is great, when it works. > [ text deleted] >-- >Keith Petersen >Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA >Uucp: {bellcore,decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uw-beaver}!simtel20.arpa!w8sdz >GEnie: W8SDZ Ephram Cohen ephram@violet.berktionminim