Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ucsd!ames!haven!uvaarpa!babbage!euclid.acc.Virginia.EDU!wfp5p From: wfp5p@euclid.acc.Virginia.EDU (William F. Pemberton) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: pk(un)zip Keywords: PKARC, PAK, ARC Message-ID: <544@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 20 Mar 89 01:24:58 GMT References: <688@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Sender: acc@babbage.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: wfp5p@euclid.acc.Virginia.EDU (William F. Pemberton) Organization: Academic Computing Center, University of Va. Lines: 29 In article <688@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge) writes: >But now another question arises: What about compatibility????? >I already have PKARC, and PKZIP seems to be better, but will it >uncompress .ARC-Files?? ARC is still the standard! If PKZIP isn't >able to read - if not write - .ARC-Files, this means I have to keep >SEA's ARC (or the old PKARC) together with PKZIP in order to be able >to read stuff from colleagues or the net! >Perhaps the author of the above could say a word or two about this >topic. Thanx! > NO! pkZip is not going to be able to deal with ARCS. This is the whole reason that we have Zip now. SEA has basically said (with the suit against PK) that they do not want anybody but themselves writing programs that do the same job as ARC. As I see it, if zip takes over as the "standard" then we will have to keep something like PkArc around for a while (since we will still run into and "old" arc file from time to time) but that isn't any big deal, it doesn't take up a load of space. I am not really favoring any one package, yet. I have been playing with zip a little bit, but the jury is still out for me. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Bill Pemberton flash@virginia.bitnet wfp5p@virginia.bitnet | |(804)296-FRYD flash@virginia.edu wfp5p@virginia.edu | |Academic Computing Center +-----------------------------------------------+ |University of Virginia | "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, and sex, | |Charlottesville, Va 22904 | but they've always worked for me" - H.Thompson| +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+