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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Why we need a UNIX arc (was: Re: SEA files against pkarc author)
Summary: To unpack existing *.arc files
Keywords: arc compress tar
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Date: 12 Jun 88 19:54:38 GMT
References: <597@bpa.BELL-ATL.COM> <2409@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <733@hadron.UUCP> <2693@bigtex.uucp>
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In article <2693@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>
>PS. I do think anyone using Henderson's source for a unix ARC is standing on
>    quicksand.  Why anyone would want a unix ARC when tar & compress are
>    available is beyond me.-- 

I want a UNIX arc so I can look at DOS and other ARC files on my UNIX machine,
to determine if I want to go to the trouble of transferring them to the
target machine, especially since I sometimes read news and look through 
archives on machines to which I have only a slow 1200 baud connection.

I do not usually CREATE arc file on my UNIX system.

If someone came up with a non-Henderson source for an "ARC EXTRACTOR" I would
use that rather than SEA's arc.

Of course there are systems like killer which runs a BBS for non-UNIX users,
and who therefore have a greater need of a fully functional clone of ARC.
-- 
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