Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!amcad!billb
From: billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: numerical conversion
Message-ID: <147@amcad.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 23:28:07 GMT
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Reply-To: billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton)
Organization: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass.
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In article <9782@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>
>  I would like to suggest that people use ARC compatible format for
>postings to this group, rather than PKARC. There are many of us out here
>who are on large UNIX computers who don't have PKARC at our fingertips,
>but do have ARC.
Good idea.  PKARC has options that allow you to disable the incompatible
compression format.  It's also *much* faster than ARC too. 

To create a SEA ARC compatible archive:
	PKARC -oc a arcname *.*
This will create a file ARCNAME.ARC using all the files in the current
directory.  This assumes that PKARC.COM is located in your path. 

There have been changes to a version of SEA ARC to make it compatible
with PKARC's newer compression scheme.  Unfortunately, these changes
haven't been verified on many machines.  Nor to my knowledge is such a
version of ARC widely available.  It would be nice if someone would be
able to coordinate the verification of one of the PKARC compatible ARC
programs and post patches as it seems appropriate.

>-- 
>	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
>  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
>"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

-Bill

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