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From: jason@lakesys.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: archiver for IIe?
Summary: I don't think a port would work
Keywords: ARC etc.
Message-ID: <1131@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 05:34:41 GMT
References: <23752@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <15160@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1106@lakesys.UUCP> <15360@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: jason@lakesys.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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	Sure, someone could port an MS-DOS or other ARC over to the //gs
(I don't know about the //e...), but it would be so slow as to be useless,
unless the porter wanted to translate down into assembly, which would be a
fairly large pain in the arsh. When the program I'm talking about gets
released, none of this will matter a whole lot. Sure, it won't be ARC
compatible, but it wouldn't be to tricky to write a converter (for store only
type things, not the compressed stuff). Speaking of which, does anyone have
the file format that ARC uses? If someone does, I'd appreciate it if you could
mail me a copy.


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