Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Standard format for ARCed files
Message-ID: <1485@looking.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 07:19:09 GMT
References: <5439@swan.ulowell.edu> <551@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <6127@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Why use ARC at all?  As was debated before, all news is compressed along
links that care about cost.  Sometimes Arc + Compress is better than just
compress, but only marginally at best.  Sometimes Arc + Compress is worse.

Just use the "portable archive" code that was sent out to the public
domain ages ago.  This can be posted here again, and it's compatible with
the 4.2bsd "ar" program as well.  The source to the unpacker is so small
you could even include it with most postings.

Or use shar programs, which which every unix has an unpacker.
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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473