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From: malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: New public domain archiving system development
Summary: "There you go again."
Keywords: UNIX
Message-ID: <183@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 88 15:21:51 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12431393020.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> <1297@micomvax.UUCP> <3218@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1068@lakesys.UUCP>
Reply-To: malpass@ll-vlsi.arpa.UUCP (Don Malpass)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA
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In article <1068@lakesys.UUCP> mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) writes:
>... MS-DOS ... the Commodore Amiga family, ... and the
>DEC VAX/VMS environment;

	Conspicuously absent from your reply is the word UNIX.  One
reason you guys may never succeed in killing ARC is that the
INcompatible pkarc format couldn't easily be un-arc'd in most systems
running UNIX.
	Do you plan to continue ignoring UNIX users?
-- 
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.