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From: malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: The final (hopefully) word in the SEA/PKware situation
Summary: What's this - RATIONALITY twice in one week?
Keywords: PKware SEA ARC PKARC ZOO FIDO FIDONEWS
Message-ID: <187@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 88 14:39:02 GMT
References: <302@wuibc.UUCP>
Reply-To: malpass@ll-vlsi.arpa.UUCP (Don Malpass)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA
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In article <302@wuibc.UUCP> gmat@wuibc.UUCP (Gregory Martin Amaya Tormo) writes:
>
>....  I wish there had been another way because we have all lost from
>this mess.  ...Let us stop wasting money and time
>debating the issue any further. ... I believe
>that all archive sites currently banning SEA archives should end the
>protest as it is a mute point based on the now known facts.  I encourage
>the use of both ARC and ZOO (although I have never used it), and challenge
>programmers out there to port the current ARC and ZOO version to unix, and
>to take SEA up on their source code policy and use it to create ARC to ZOO
>and ZOO to ARC converters....
>....  I challenge SEA to upgrade ARC to utilize the features and speed that 
>endeared me to the PKware programs in the first place.  I see no need to
>fight for a new standard, nor any reason to abandon the current one.

	This, on top of the "Brief History of Archiving" is almost more
reasonable talk than I can handle.  I s'pose there would be too much
crow to eat for SEA to subcontract to Katz to provide the fast
DOS machine-code version of generic ARC.  Perhaps we can at least agree
to a 5-day moratorium on further discussion while we ponder this wisdom
and calm down enough to get on with the business at hand, leaving the
politics to the retards in Congress [forgive the redundancy].

	However,
>...protest as it is a mute point based on the now known facts.
                       ^^^^
I think you intended to say "MOOT" point.  It is my continuing fervent
hope that these points and the whole damn issue rapidly BECOME mute.
Anyway, thanks again for a glimmer of sanity in this imbroglio.
-- 
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.