Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files Message-ID: <2928@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 8 Sep 88 22:37:40 GMT References: <12094@steinmetz.ge.com> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 16 In article <12094@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: } } There has been a lot of stuff posted about changing from arc to }another format, including the following execpts. I feel very strongly }that if people want to get off of ARC they should consider going to an }established standard, like zoo. To jump from one proprietary standard to }another is really bad from a technology standpoint, and to announce that }you will do so before the product exists seems totally irrational. Consider this another vote for using ZOO on SIMTEL20. I will be uploading the next version of the interrupt list as a ZOOchive (and not just because it is nearly 5K *smaller* than pkarc -oct). -- {harvard,uunet,ucbvax}!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=- AT&T: (412)268-3053 (school) ARPA: RALF@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU |"Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make. FIDO: Ralf Brown at 129/31 | Tact means not noticing them." --Arthur Schnitzler BITnet: RALF%B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU@CMUCCVMA -=-=- DISCLAIMER? I claimed something?