Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!W8SDZ From: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: GSARC - non-compatible more efficient archiver Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 88 20:24:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 14 As I said in my original posting, I do not endorse the GSARC program, but it does bring up some interesting questions. The mailing address of the author is included in the original posting and in the extracted DOC file. If you have concerns about it being incompatible why not express them to the author in a letter? The significant thing, in my opinion, is that a major breakthrough has been made in compression efficiency. Must everyone be forever locked into less efficient algorithms just because the older programs can't read the new format? If that were true, everyone would still be using SEA's original version of ARC, which cannot read files created by SEA's own ARC5xx. --Keith