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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: arc that UnSquashes but doesn't XXX but does YYY etc...
Message-ID: <2520@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 08:59:38 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 26 08:59:38 1987
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hyc@umix.UUCP (Howard Chu) wrote:
> I've recently modified the ARC that was posted some time ago...
>                  If anyone's interested, I can post the sources...

We already have way too many versions of "arc for Unix" around,
not to mention arc for other operating systems.  We also have
enough postings and repostings of half-trashed copies.

What we need is a volunteer!  [It ain't me babe.]

I'll be glad to send my copy of "arc" to anybody who will promise to
merge all the versions they get into a single, useful, working version.
Lord knows everyone has separately fixed the top 10 bugs but I bet
among us there are another 100 fixed.  That code was just NOT portable!
E.g. I found a dependency on order-of-execution that I bet a lot of folks
never found -- and even on MSDOS I noticed that the 'c' option would
destroy any file it tried to re-crunch, because it used the same temp
file name for two different things.

I'd like to ask Brandon and Rich and the moderators for the other sources
groups to reject or defer posting Yet Another ARC until we find somebody
who will take it under their wing.  Of course, nothing but common sense
can stop postings to alt.sources...so I hereby request a little common sense.

	John

PS:  A special place in hell is reserved for those who reformatted the
source while making a three-line bugfix, thereby making 'diffs' useless.
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