Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!panda!teddy!jpn
From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PKARC
Message-ID: <4644@teddy.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 11:54:44 GMT
References: <4671@ozdaltx.UUCP> <4638@teddy.UUCP> <1089@csuna.UUCP>
Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
Lines: 79

>>I applied the "official" patch to PKARC35, which turned off "Squashing"
>
>What is the "Official" Patch?

OK, OK.  I guess this patch isn't really "official", but it was posted
to USENET at about the same time PKX35A35.EXE was first posted.  I am
posting it uuencoded/arced, because it contains DEBUG scripts, which
are sensitive to having carriage returns.  I am including enough of the
READ.ME to let you know what it does.

I wish whoever had posted pkarc.exe and pkxarc.exe had not done so:
If you dont have the COMPLETE distribution (PKX35A35.EXE), then you
really should get it!

Extract from READ.ME:

    PKARC v3.5 added a configuration file to allow the compatibility
    option defaults to be changed.  Although the ability to change
    the defaults is a good idea, the implementation is poor because
    (1) an environment variable is usually needed to point to the
    configuration file, (2) the configuration file wastes disk
    space, and (3) it takes time to open and process the file
    whenever PKARC is run.  It would have been much better if the
    compatibility option defaults were simply specified with the
    environment variable directly, making the file unnecessary!

    If, like me, you want to change the default(s), but you don't
    want to set up the configuration file, the simplest method is
    to patch the program to permanently change the defaults.  The
    two patch files OC and OT are DEBUG scripts which will patch
    PKARC v3.5 (and NO OTHER VERSION) to change the two defaults.
    Otherwise the operation of PKARC is UNAFFECTED: even the -nc
    and -nt switches and the configuration file will still work!


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