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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ARC for UNIX
Message-ID: <7601@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 12:49:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 12:49:40 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 00:36:25 EDT
References: <929@saturn.ucsc.edu>
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <929@saturn.ucsc.edu> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes:
|Does anyone know if the ARC utility available on various PCs has been ported to
|UNIX?  If not, has someone ported "compress" to a micro?  I need to send high
|volumes of data between PCs and UNIX; it would be nice to be able to compress
|it first.

I would highly recommend using the zoo package, which runs on UNIX and
MSDOS (and VMS in Beta). It faster than ARC, slightly better
compression, and comes with 'fiz,' a program to allow extraction of good
parts from mungled archives. It was posted several months ago.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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