Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!W8SDZ From: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: GSARC - non-compatible more efficient archiver Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 88 20:18:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Don, are you suggesting that files on SIMTEL20 be censored? As I said in my posting, I do not endorse the program, but it does bring up some interesting questions. The mailing address of the author is included in my announcement and in the extracted DOC file. Why not express your concerns to him 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