Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!pyrnj!dasys1!tneff From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Wake up and smell the coffee Message-ID: <6772@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 88 17:34:48 GMT References: <4574232@ <16800358@clio> <925@psu-cs.UUCP> <1988Sep13.185106.14193@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <506@mks.UUCP> <439@l5comp.UUCP> Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: Independent Users Guild Lines: 23 Scott Turner's analysis of the SEA/PK thing is interesting. I have no doubt he will get all the flames he predicted and more! :-) It would certainly be a nice idea to work on promulgating a new packaging standard after several years of ARC. But it should be a major IMPROVEMENT over ARC, not a politically motivated workalike. There are a number of features we could stand to see invented, and this would be a good time to do it. That's not exactly what appears to be happening though. Rahul's ZOO doesn't represent a true quantum improvement over ARC; it's more of a carefully rethought clone. Nevertheless it would have been perfectly positioned to step into the void after the ARC legal firestorm and become a prominent packaging format. Unfortunately, Rahul picked this most inopportune of moments to start playing political games with the timesharing services and diskette clubs, hobbling his current ZOO.EXE with a mishmash of distribution restrictions I think few sysops are going to want to try and wade through. A real shame. -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: t.neff (no kidding)