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From: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: pkxarc wanted
Message-ID: <114@atpal.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 21:02:27 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Rational Technologies, Inc.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: pkxarc wanted
Summary: A simple solution
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Reply-To: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Rational Technologies, Inc.
Keywords: pkxarc katz arce buerg

In article <3511@dasys1.UUCP> fastrax@dasys1.UUCP (Jonathan Herbert) writes:
>> >No, be sure you are posting PKX35B35.EXE, which is the absolute latest
>> >stuff, and fixes some small bugs.
>> 	I have it on pretty good authority that PKX35B35.EXE is NOT from
>> Phil Katz or PKWARE.  I don't remember if it was a trojan or a virus or
>> anything like that, but I do remember that PKX35A35.EXE is the LATEST
>> official version.  Maybe someone could contact PKWARE and absolutely verify
>> this.  Until it then, be careful.
>
>Let me throw my two cents in here.  For what it's worth, the rumors that I have
>heard are that PKX35B35.EXE is some kind of yucky nasty.  Be very ware.  Stick  
>to the A version unitl the dust settles. 

Guys -- if you use Vern Buerg's superb ARCE.COM, which predates all the Katz
stuff, is smaller, nimbler, and more reliable, you will not have this problem.
The current version (3.1b) even supports Katz's incompatible, reprehensible,
rogue "squashing" compression technique.  











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Tom Neff