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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: PKARC: IMPORTANT NOTICE ON UNIX ARC!!!
Message-ID: <2918@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 22:36:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2918
Posted: Thu Jul 16 22:36:21 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 19:44:55 EDT
References: <3187@ptsfa.UUCP> <4587@iucs.UUCP> <1589@phred.UUCP> <1291@osiris.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
Lines: 32
Summary: ATTENTION, ALL!!!  UNIX ARC WITH SQUASHING IS ON ITS WAY!!!
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.ibm.pc:5818 comp.sources.d:987

As quoted from <1291@osiris.UUCP> by jdia@osiris.UUCP (Josh Diamond):
+---------------
| FLAME ON  :-( 
| FLAME ON  :-( 
| FLAME ON  :-( 
| 
| In article <1589@phred.UUCP>, craiga@phred.UUCP (Craig Arno  TE N9) writes:
| [stuff deleted]
| > As for why you haven't seen PKARC on a Unix type box; I have been told that
| > PKARC was written in Microsoft MASM (assembly) for the PC.  Assembly code 
| > is not very portable. 8-<)
| 
| I will repeat: WHY DOESN'T HE PUBLISH THE FORMAT OF HIS NEW ARC FILES? :-(
| IF PK IS SUCH A COOL DUDE, THEN HE SHOULD PUBLISH THE COMPRESSION FORMAT!!!!
+---------------

Apparently he has.

ATTENTION, ALL!!!

A UNIX ARC WITH THE ABILITY TO UNSQUASH FILES HAS BEEN POSTED TO alt.sources!
I AM FORWARDING IT TO comp.sources.misc, SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE ACCESS TO IT.

It is a "quick and dirty" hack; a "clean" version is promised soon.  It also
does not _create_ squashed files yet, but that itn't quite as important as
the ability to extract them.
-- 
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