Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:1000 comp.sys.ibm.pc:19087 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!w8sdz From: w8sdz@smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files Summary: A totally PD archive program is in the works Keywords: pkarc, pkpak, zoo, arc, archive Message-ID: <8465@smoke.ARPA> Date: 8 Sep 88 19:56:25 GMT References: <159@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.mil (Keith Petersen) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 16 SIMTEL20 will be going with Phil Katz's new file archiving method because it will be a standard set by a group effort of various well-known shareware and PD authors. The file format will be clearly defined and a public release will be made of portable C-language sources suitable for porting to any operating system with a C compiler. The file format and the portable source code will be placed in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, with no restrictions on how it may be distributed. If you want to pay $12.50 an hour for downloading it from one service when it is also available from another for $5 an hour, that's your business. --Keith -- Keith Petersen Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Uucp: {att,decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uw-beaver}!simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz GEnie: W8SDZ