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From: car@pte.UUCP (Chris Rende)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: zoo'ed IBM-PC binaries?
Summary: ARC won't compile on MY System V
Message-ID: <675@pte.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 17:58:41 GMT
References: <77800005@sts> <5978@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <13229@steinmetz.ge.com> <17652@genrad.UUCP>
Organization: Precise Technology & Electronics, Warren, MI
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In article <17652@genrad.UUCP>, jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson) writes:
> In article <13229@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
> >I'm in favor of switching now. arc is not available on UNIX machines,
> 
> I really don't understand why people keep saying that.  The UNIX source
> has been posted to usenet at least 3 times.  The latest version that
> was posted is a port of ARC 5.21 with PKARC extensions (i.e.
> squashing), and it compiles on both System V and Berkeley.

I got the source for ARC 5.21 for my System V Release 2 system.
It wouldn't compile - after a bit of hacking I gave up on it.

More often than not, the ARC's I get from the net don't work with the version
of ARC.EXE I have for MSDOS - that's a pain. Maybe I have an older ARC.EXE -
who knows?

ZOO, on the other hand, WORKS GREAT on my System V. And, I didn't have to do
any major back flips to get it working.

> What MORE do you want?

Something that works well in BOTH environments.

car.
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