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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ARC Sources for UNIX - some input
Message-ID: <546@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 14:47:51 GMT
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In article <24453@clyde.ATT.COM> rcj@moss.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) writes:
== In article <4077@whuts.UUCP> chl@whuts.UUCP (LANG) writes:
== }When I originally posted the message about the recent SYS5 sources for
== }UNIX ARC being incompatible with the MS-DOS ARC, I had noticed the
== }-i switch.  This does make it compatible; however, why should this
== }switch be needed.  Aren't most people just using ARC to go between the
== }PC and UNIX (and vice versa).  Why force an extra command line argument
== }which to me really makes it incompatible (OK! if not incompatible, its
== 
== That's why I took two minutes to change the sense of the -i switch;
== mine now is IBM-compatible by default and -i makes it incompatible.
== 

Sorry for having missed this, but what is the -i switch?

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