Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:118 comp.sources.d:2030
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff
From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <4280@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 17:28:18 GMT
References: <299@cullsj.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Distribution: na
Organization: President's Council on Astrology
Lines: 30
Keywords: compression, archive, UUCP
Summary: arc too

In article <299@cullsj.UUCP> jeff@cullsj.UUCP (Jeffrey C. Fried) writes:
> ... Also, i did not know that source for
>zoo was available - a consideration which i believe to be VERY important
>since support usually comes best from those who use a product.

The source for ARC is available too, and it's running on (for instance)
this Stride.  

Don't confuse the ARC standard with Phil Katz's PC-optimized clone PKARC.
Due to an assiduous sales job most PC sysops have the Katz thing, but it
ain't the original.  The "C" language real McCoy is slower on PC's but
more portable.

>For those who suggested that i "do my homework" before posting something
>to the net, i can only say that since the net is my ONLY contact with this
>problem, and that the comp...d group is for discussions, i am in essence
>"doing my homework".  

There is a school of thought, notably expressed in the cat.announce.newusers
material, than the Net is a place for authoritative answers and requests for
same, not for "homework" owing to the expense of carrying it all.  I try to
keep an open mind.  :-)

Not that your posting was anything to apologize for anyway...


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