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From: rrodrigu@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Russ Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Standard format for ARCed files
Message-ID: <21480@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 15 Mar 88 04:12:59 GMT
References: <5439@swan.ulowell.edu> <551@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
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Summary: Who cares about the Unix archive extractor anyway???

In article <551@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Dave Goldblatt) writes:
> From article <5439@swan.ulowell.edu>, by boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator):
> > I propose a standard format for ARCed files uploaded to comp.binaries.ibm.pc
> > could be as follows:
> > 
> > 	1) The moderator would ARC the files using PKARC 3.5
> > 	2) The moderator would use the MAKESFX program to create a
> >            self-extracting archive.
> 
> Suggestion: Use PKARC with the /oct option to create ARC-compatible
> archives.  Do not use MAKESFX.  Some arc programs will read self-extracting
> archives, but some die on them.
> 

Who care whether the UN*X archive program can read them or not??? This is 
COMP.BINARIES.IBM.PC, not COMP.UN*X, so whatever you pull off this 
board is going to end up on a PC anyway. I vote for the self-extracting 
archives over the arced-only files.  I guess it's a vote for whether to
use the ZOO or the Phil Katz self extracting archivers.  I'll take either
but condemn to death the UN*X archive utility.

Russell
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