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From: jvc@prism.TMC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PKARC (Phil Katz's original res
Message-ID: <206900099@prism>
Date: 3 Mar 88 15:48:00 GMT
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Nf-From: prism.TMC.COM!jvc    Mar  3 10:48:00 1988


>/* Written  9:45 am  Mar  1, 1988 by pjh@mccc.UUCP */
>In article <8802290547.AA14788@decwrl.dec.com> fulton@navion.dec.com (28-Feb-1988 2248) writes:
>|tr@bellcore.bellcore.com writes:
>|
>|>I know I can use the /oct option to prevent PKARC from using
>|>sqashing.  But someone just mentioned a patch to make this permanent.
>|>I would like this so that I don't have to remember to type /oct
>|>every time I make an archive.
>| 
>
>The patch is very simple.  Just use DEBUG to change the byte at F25 from
>75 (squash is the default) to 74 (must use /oc to get squashing) or EB
>(permanently disables squashing, iorrespective of /oc).

It's highly unlikely that this patch will work for all versions of
pkarc.  One should never advertise a patch without stating exactly
what version it applies to.