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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Standard format for ARCed files
Message-ID: <9938@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 14:22:45 GMT
References: <5439@swan.ulowell.edu> <1551@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1551@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tim Iverson) writes:
| [...]
| There is only one program that I know of that can serve as a standard, if
| that is something you feel is needed:  zoo.  It runs on just about any
| machine I can think of and the resulting archive can be manipulated with
| equal ease on any system zoo runs on.  Rahul Dhesi (sp?) has created a very
| nice program that is eminently suitable as a standard for exchange of data
| between disimilar machines.

Absolutely! Zoo runs on UNIX, MS-DOG, and VMS (at least). However, I
would be reasonably happy with ARC, but not PKARC. I can't see
downloading a program via modem just to look at the doc files and see if
it was worth doing.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me