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From: conway@hpdtl.HP.COM (Daniel F. Conway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New public domain archiving system development
Message-ID: <8040001@hpdtl.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 88 21:54:09 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12431393020.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Organization: HP Design Tech. Lab., Palo Alto, CA
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  >>... 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

                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What am I missing here?  Why not?  'Bits is bits' (aren't they?)

  >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.

Dan Conway
dan_conway@hplabs.hp.com