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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ARC standards
Message-ID: <9977@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 14:17:14 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <3721@killer.UUCP> tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko) writes:
>My thought on the question of ARC file portability is why isn't some
>sort of standard devised.  It seems to me that with the volume of 

  ARC is the original program from SEAware, and it's format is a
standard of sorts. There are UNIX programs which do a reasonable job of
handling this format, and, I'm told, a VMS ARC reader program.

  For a portable standard I have switched to "zoo" as being truly
portable. I run it on BSD, SysV, MS-DOS, SunOS, VMS, etc. I have been
told that it runs on Amiga and Atari also.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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