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From: malpass@LL-VLSI.ARPA (Don Malpass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re:  SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files
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Date: 9 Sep 88 16:28:09 GMT
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Fellow Z-100ers:
	I'll say the same thing I've said to the ibm.pc crowd:
Please, Dear God: not yet another scheme.
	Whazzamatter with using zoo if we're all suddenly turned off by
[pk]arc?  Zoo has lots of virtues, not the least of which is that it
EXISTS NOW for both msdos and unix.  I'm bloody tired of having a
compression "standard" which grows a new whistle or bell every month
and becomes more and more incompatible with its unix-self.  The pk
speed improvement was great, but arc didn't NEED all the new
compression schemes added, particularly at the expense of the human
interface.  We also don't need all the electronic screaming that it
continues to generate, and I'm sorry I feel compelled to add to it.  If
we won't or can't use arc, let's use zoo and even get the benefit of
path-inclusion which, with "stuff.exe" (part of the package) is leading
toward a reasonable scheme for compressed hard-disk backups.
	Cheers,
		don
Don Malpass   [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa],  [malpass@spenser.ll.mit.edu]
  My opinions are seldom shared by MIT Lincoln Lab, my actual
    employer RCA (known recently as GE), or my wife.