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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Arc vs compress
Message-ID: <7953@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 08:35:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 08:35:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 01:07:29 EST
References: <696@rlgvax.UUCP> <7406@eddie.MIT.EDU> <343@gethen.UUCP> <6695@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: Why arc?

In article <6695@brl-smoke.ARPA> w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) <w8sdz>) writes:
>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.

The "zoo" archiver allows extraction of files from a damaged archive.
This allows recovery of most of the info from a munged archive.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me