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From: fulton@navion.dec.com (26-Feb-1988 1916)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PKARC
Message-ID: <8802270215.AA03895@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 27 Feb 88 03:16:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In <4671@ozdaltx.UUCP> root@ozdaltx.UUCP (Scotty) writes:

>If you are using PKARC, you might give some serious
>consideration to going back to the Standard ARC.  I talked
>with Thom Henderson today of S E A who authored ARC and they
>are getting complaints about PKARC not being system
>compatable (backwards) with ARC.

        If  you  are    using    PKARC,  you  might  give  some  serious
        consideration to reading the documentation (I do understand that
        doing so is quite a  novel  idea  for  many).  There are command
        line options for PKARC which allow  you  to  disable  squashing,
        which is the only part of PKARC  not  compatible with SEA's ARC.

>The *occasional*  1-3% savings in compression is hardly
>worth the problems caused by incompability.

        Gee, I wish I had as much free  time  as  you do.  I only had to
        run PKARC ***ONE TIME*** to know that I would  never  go back to
        SEA's tortoise.  If you get big thrills from watching  your hard
        disk access light go on and off and are mesmerized by  your hard
        disk sounding like a washing machine, then by all means continue
        to use SEA's ARC.