Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 88 02:44:17 GMT References: Sender: root@sun.soe Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: na Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 20 In-reply-to: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL's message of 7 Sep 88 22:16:00 GMT SIMTEL20 today announced that it will soon be banning all ARC files from its archives. We have contacted Phil Katz and asked to make arrangements for anything he develops in whatever new format in C source so that it can ported to our TOPS-20 operating system. Then, as time permits, it is our intent to convert *everything* on SIMTEL20 from ARC to that new format, including the PC/BLUE files. So what is wrong with zoo? looz is Public Domain, the real thing. I think that going with yet another commercial product is just asking for trouble. I think that Rahul would not object at all if someone came out with a commercial version of zoo, provided, of course, that it didn't violate the copyright on his code. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Shuzan held out his short staff and said, "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the facts. Now, what do you wish to call it?"