Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PK ARC, Another View Message-ID: <3273@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 22:44:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.3273 Posted: Mon Jul 20 22:44:29 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 10:40:24 EDT References: <287@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com*<206900061@mirror> <2406@whuts.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 25 As quoted from <2406@whuts.UUCP> by tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL): +--------------- | PKARC 3.5 and PKXARC 3.5 (the latest) hangs my machine so bad that | not even my "cboot" or my "little red switch (boots without dis- | turbing memory)" CANNOT FIX. I LOOSE HOURS OF WORK IN RAMDISK. +--------------- My experience is that ARC has a tendency to infinite-loop on my machine on corrupted archives (it can be ^C'ed, though), while PKXARC tells me the archive is corrupted. +--------------- | 4: Will not check if something has been previously archived | and will re-archive. The user is left with the exercise | of figuring out how "deep" the re-re-re-archiving got. +--------------- As I remember it, this was considered a feature. I don't remember the rationale. -- [Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery, all rights reserved] [Redistribution permitted only if redistribution is subsequently permitted.] Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!cwruecmp!hal,cbosgd}!ncoast!allbery <>