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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: bsd version of arc
Message-ID: <4358@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 Apr 88 10:36:18 GMT
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Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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I have a version of "arc" with numerous bugs removed.  It seems to
create, extract, list, and test files in all archives I have run across
(except damaged archives, which it complains about now rather than core
dumping on).  Arc files it has created have been moved to msdos without
trouble, and vice verse.  It's still really slow and stupid, but I
didn't fix design problems, just bugs.

Many months ago, I sent my version to somebody at umix who claimed to
be willing to maintain a master "Unix ARC" source.  I no longer have a
record of who that was, and they don't seem to have distributed it or
answered any of these net queries.

I am *not* willing to send out copies to everybody who asks.  I am *not*
willing to act as a clearing house for arc bugfixes.  I *am* willing to send
my version to a person who *is* willing to do the above two things.

In other words, I don't mind sharing my bug fixes, I just have no
interest being stuck maintaining the damn thing, or having to handle a
lot of email about it.  How about a serious volunteer responding by
posting in comp.sources.d?  (Then everybody can email their versions to
this person, who had better be willing to merge a lot of bugfixes from
a lot of wierd versions of arc.)
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  I forsee a day when there are two kinds of C compilers: standard ones and 
  useful ones ... just like Pascal and Fortran.  Are we making progress yet?
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