Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:18737 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:926 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!ist!olgb1!slxsys!cix!fthorn From: fthorn@cix.UUCP (Frank Thornley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: PK361.EXE Summary: More info about SEA - authors of ARC Keywords: PKARC ZOO Message-ID: <175@cix.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 88 12:30:15 GMT References: <356@marob.MASA.COM> <1724@eneevax.UUCP> Organization: Compulink Information Exchange (CIX), Surbiton, London, UK Lines: 35 In article <1724@eneevax.UUCP>, chuck@eneevax.UUCP (Chuck Harris) writes: > In article <1103@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncperson@ndsuvax.UUCP (Missing Person) writes: > >What other products does SEA produce, all I've ever seen is there archive > >program. Is that their SOUL SOURCE of income? > > I think that copyrighting the .ARC extension just makes SEA look like... > > Seems to me that there isn't anyway that SEA could hold the copyright to the > extension .ARC > > Computer Innovations, INC has been using that extension for their archive > program ARCH since 1981!!! ( and still does. ) > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think SEA has been around that long. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chuck Harris, C.F. Harris - Consulting. I have known of SEA for some years now - indeed Thom Henderson of SEA is extremely well known in the FIDONET world. FIDONET, for those of you not familiar with FIDONET, it's a network of IBM-PC based bulletin boards based on Tom Jenning's FIDO software. There areound 3000 nodes worldwide, and it's been running for over four years now. Thom Henderson is one of the pioneers of FIDONET, and among other products SEA are responsible for the SEADOG mailer program which is a stand-alone electronic mail program for the IBM-PC. Thom is also responsible for editing FIDONEWS which is the weekly newsletter distributed around FIDONET - it runs to something like 100K/week last time I looked. They have also written a proprietry file-transfer protocol which is used in several PC comms packages, and bulletin board systems - SEALINK. =============================================================================== Frank Thornley - CIX - a new era in communic%%#$^**^