Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!W8SDZ From: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files Message-ID: Date: 9 Sep 88 19:11:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 Read the ZOO documentation. It prohibits distribution on services which charge more than $8 an hour, thus eliminating it from consideration as a "Universal Standard readily available to all". There is a lot more going on behind the scenes than most people know. The new file format is a group effort. >From: w8sdz@smoke.brl.mil (Keith B. Petersen ) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files Date: 8 Sep 88 19:56:25 GMT Keywords: pkarc, pkpak, zoo, arc, archive Summary: A totally PD archive program is in the works 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