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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FTP Arc Transfers
Keywords: atari st, ftp, arc
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Date: 16 Dec 88 01:23:18 GMT
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In article <1165@dukeac.UUCP> sbigham@dukeac.UUCP (Scott Bigham) writes:
>Yet another monkey wrench to throw in the works:
>
>Is the ARC used to arc these binaries the same as the arc found on most Unix 
>systems?  Or what is this ARC 5.21 thing the last person mentioned?  The only
>other ARC program I've seen is (you guessed it) ARCed.
>
Until recently, ARC did not exist on most Unix systems. However, within the
past year, three major versions have come out, based on MSDOS ARC  versions
5.12, 5.20, and 5.21. If your Unix ARC doesn't claim to be any particular
version, it is probably based on 5.12. I released 5.20 and 5.21; the former
to alt.sources and the latter on comp.sources.unix. If you don't have it,
get it from uunet or any other unix archive site...

>I have some file called ARCX.TTP given me by a friend of mine who does this
>sort of thing regularly (and who's unfortunately at another college at the 
>moment).  Does it bear any relation to anything discussed above (or anywhere
>else in the newsgroup, for that matter)?

ARCX will only extract files from archives, and it won't extract squashed
files. ARC 5.21 will both create and extract from archives with squashed
files, as well as the usual crunched and squeezed... (Too bad it's so slow.
Still looking at it to see what new things I can do with it. Should have
5.32 in a couple days; look for it in a week or two.)
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