Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:1024 comp.sys.ibm.pc:19306 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!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: PKWare isn't the only shareware author threatened Keywords: pkarc, pkpak, zoo, arc, archive Message-ID: <8526@smoke.ARPA> Date: 18 Sep 88 03:33:36 GMT References: <159@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <8465@smoke.ARPA> <1678@qiclab.UUCP> Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 20 The officers of FIDO had better do some calling around, as I did. Tell them to start with Gary Conway, author of the popular NARC menu-driven ARC viewer/extractor/etc. Gary's program is written TOTALLY in assembler. Gary has had to hire a lawyer after SEA contacted him with certain demands only Gary can tell you about. I'm surprised that the Fido group is so uninformed. They had better do some inventigation of their own before aligning themselves with SEA. Don't take my word - call various shareware authors who write programs that do anything with or to ARC files. Many of them are on CIS's IBM Forum and they are up in arms! Read the "Hot Topics" thread there. Please let's move this to comp.sys.ibm.pc *only*. The binaries discussion group is for discussing the programs posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc. -- Keith Petersen Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Uucp: {att,decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uw-beaver}!simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz GEnie: W8SDZ