Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:1018 comp.sys.ibm.pc:19244 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!gatech!ncsuvx!mcnc!xanth!rlb From: rlb@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files Keywords: pkarc, pkpak, zoo, arc, archive Message-ID: <6277@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Date: 16 Sep 88 03:50:06 GMT References: <159@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <8465@smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey) Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va. Lines: 25 In article <8465@smoke.ARPA> you write: >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. AMEN! I'm glad to see that finally there is going to be some cooperation in setting a standard archive format. I, for one, don't like being held at the whim of a company (SEA) that wants to act in such a manner that hurts everyone in the PC universe. I hope that this standard will also be submitted to IEEE for consideration. IEEE adoption of this as a standard would insure that NO ONE company could claim that it belongs to them. This would certainly insure file compatibility regardless of the type of system. Bob Bailey