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From: acn@caen.engin.umich.edu (netnews_boy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Trouble unARCing UNIX toolkit (really: anyone have a new ARC ?)
Message-ID: <803@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 88 21:34:15 GMT
References: <8804141613.AA08392@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <10192@sunybcs.UUCP>
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Summary: Arc 5.2

In article <10192@sunybcs.UUCP>, leo@sunybcs.uucp (Leo Wilson) writes:
> In article <8804141613.AA08392@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET writes:
> >Seriously: is there anyone out there who could write a new ARC version for the
> >ST that includes all IBM Arc compression methods ??? 
> 
> If you follow alt.sources, the guy who ported arc 5.2 to BSD said something
> about beginning a port to his ST in a couple of days. In any event, the arc
> posted in alt.sources works on BSD, or seems to so far. I only compiled it
> today and need to check into it further before asking the site manager to
> actually install it. Does 5.2 have "all IBM Arc compression methods"?
> 
> Please note that I have nothing more to do with arc than using it, and
> I don't know Howard personally (he's done a number of good things for the
> ST), so this is PURE RUMOR for the time being...
> Leo E. Wilson  364 West Delavan Avenue  Buffalo, NY 14213  (716)883-7573
> (leo@gort.cs.Buffalo.EDU)    ...!sunybcs[!leow]!leo    leo@sunybcs.bitnet

I do know Howard personally. And to the best of my knowledge, he is porting
it to the ST this weekend. No vapor ware here... :-)

Jon Brode  --  acn@caen.engin.umich.edu