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From: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: (shar(uuencode(arc)))
Message-ID: <128@atpal.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 18:03:24 GMT
References: <446@csccat.UUCP> <763@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: tneff@atpal.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Rational Technologies, Inc.
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Summary: Buerg to the rescue

In article <763@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Dave Goldblatt) writes:
> ... PKARC is _much_ faster than
>ARC, but there are no commonly-available arc programs under Unix which
>support "squashing" ...

If you want a superfast ARC creation program that doesn't use rogue "squash"
algorithms UNIX/VAX can't read, just fire up ARCA.COM by Vern Buerg and
Wayne Chin.  It's smaller than PKARC, just as fast and fully compatible.
They make a companion extractor, ARCE.COM, which is also small and (as of
recent versions) handles all known algorithms.  ARCE.COM is small enough
to bundle with any sizable archive mailing.

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