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From: w8sdz@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Arc vs compress
Message-ID: <6695@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 21:57:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 21:57:11 1987
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Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) <w8sdz>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: Why arc?

ARC offers internal error checking on each and every member file.
Compress does NO error checking.  Try truncating a compressed file and
then uncompress it.  There will be no complaints from the program.
-- 
Keith Petersen
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