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From: chl@whuts.UUCP (LANG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ARC Sources for UNIX
Message-ID: <4042@whuts.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 13:02:46 GMT
References: <5723@swan.ulowell.edu> <1296@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
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Summary: ARC Sources not compatible with MS-DOS ARC


I don't know if anyone else has had the same problem I have, but the most
recent posting of the SYS5 sources for ARC are incompatible with last
years posting and also are incompatible with the MS-DOS version of ARC.
I get complaints about the wrong number of BITS being used for packing.
The new version does compile and does make an ARC file; however, after
downloading the file to a PC.  No form of an ARC program can read it.
If I upload a file that was ARC'ed on the PC, the new version of ARC
will:
	1) trying arc v file.arc  - complains about a bad header & aborts

	2) trying arc x file.arc  - complains about incompatible number
	   of BITS used for packing & aborts.

My old SYS5 source and the new one both #define BITS 12  in arclzw.c

Does anyone know what the problem is?

Charlie Lang
whuts!chl