Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!peregrine!zardoz!dhw68k!felix!art
From: art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 to ban ARC files
Keywords: lzw, atob/btoa, 7 bit pure
Message-ID: <59253@felix.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 22:35:52 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12428752438.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> <NELSON.88Sep7224416@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <6630@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <2736@uoregon.uoregon.edu> <8475@smoke.ARPA> <2594@csccat.UUCP> <424@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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In article <424@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>i'd like to see an ARC tool which did NO compression and then have
>another tool which did the compression and then yet another for the
>decompression.

tar cf - foo | compress > foo.tar.Z
zcat foo.tar.Z | tar xf -

A PD tar has been published.  Compress is already PD.
Now that we have the solution, lets not hear any more about this.

Now where did I put that flame proof suit? :-)

Art D.
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