Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ETN-WLV.EATON.COM!pete%wlbr From: pete%wlbr@ETN-WLV.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k.pc Subject: Re: ARC for OS-9/68K Message-ID: <5631@wlbr.EATON.COM> Date: 15 Mar 88 01:40:45 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pete%wlbr@etn-wlv.eaton.com (0000-Pete Lyall) Organization: Eaton IMS, Westlake Village, CA Lines: 21 Approved: info-68k@ucbvax.berkeley.edu In article PEPRBV@CFAAMP.BITNET (Bob Babcock) writes: >Has anyone ported the MS-DOS file compression program ARC to OS-9/68K? >It seems like it should be straightforward, but if its already been done, >I don't want to duplicate the effort. >------- Well, most of the OS9'ers use 'AR', a LZ packer/compresser written by Carl Kreider a few years back. There are a couple of ARC busting tools that I have seen, one of which is DEARC. This was originally written by Steve Sampson (netaddress?), who is somewhere here on the net. If you can't get a reaction from Steve, let me know, and I'll post one over in Comp.Sys.m6809. Pete -- Pete Lyall (OS9 Users Group VP)| DELPHI: OS9UGVP | Eaton Corp.(818)-706-5693 Compuserve: 76703,4230 (OS9 Sysop) OS9 (home): (805)-985-0632 (24hr./1200 baud) Internet: pete@wlbr.eaton.com UUCP: {ihnp4,scgvax,jplgodo,voder}!wlbr!pete