Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!gatech!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!merch!cpe!hal6000!trsvax!johnm From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: GSARC - non-compatible more efficie Message-ID: <216100064@trsvax> Date: 31 Oct 88 14:50:00 GMT References: <4454218@ Lines: 33 Nf-ID: #R:Hi John, I'm not sure if I'm the John you're referring too, but... >I do not know how the situation is in the USA but in Holland, you can >get an ARC for the Amiga and for the ATARI. I undrstood they are >version based on the old ARC sources which were distributed but >still... As for VAX, NeXt, etc, I do not know but why not, the sources >are there? Yes, ARC exists and I have it, but it isn't pkarc and thus does not support squashing, it cuts my filenames to pieces (which may not seem like much but it gets to be a pain having to rename everything all the time), and I have reason to believe may be buggy. Zoo gives me more features, a consistent user interface across all my machines (VAX, PC, and Amiga), and I'm confident that there are no problems with it. It is also litigation free and I can expect it to have some form of future. ARC's forms on other machines however will probably have to be the next target of SEA if they are really intent on pursuing this to the fullest (and they seem to be). >BTW, have you seen any software yet for the NeXt (or a better question >yet, have you seen the NeXt?) I haven't seen a NeXT but I've seen plenty of software for it, I read comp.sources.unix every day :-) >BCNU >Dries Bessels >Amsterdam, Holland John Munsch