Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!unido!ztivax!tumuc!lan!kluge From: kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: pk(un)zip Summary: What about compatibility to ARC?? Keywords: PKARC, PAK, ARC Message-ID: <689@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Date: 14 Mar 89 16:50:53 GMT References: Reply-To: kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge) Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany Lines: 36 In article KOLB@HTIKUB5.BITNET writes: [Some very interesting "benchmark" figures about PAK, PKARC and ARC had to be deleted due to size reduction (compression?).] >the defunct PKPAK/PKARC, and that means, clearly superior to the infamous >SEA-products. If time is not all that important, the extended mode is a >beauty for binary files. My own compromise between speed and size is >PKZIP -eb3 meaning: extended method level 3 for binaries, default mode for >ASCII. > >Overall, I think, Phil Katz and the others did a beautiful job on this new >program. I, myself, will most certainly switch to PKZIP and I'm happy that >the reasons for that don't have to be purely "moral". (just transforming >my ARC-files to ZIP-files gave me another 1.5MB of free space). > >P.S.: I have no connection whatsoever with PKWARE Inc. or anyone else in >this business. (In fact, I didn't even pay my registration yet...) 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! So long ... :-) Oliver -- TTTU MMMMM kluge%lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de@relay.cs.net (CS-NET, ARPA) T U U M M Oliver Kluge, Parallel Computing Lab, \ unido.UUCP (UUCP) T U M M M Technical University Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 8000-Munich 2, W. Germany T UUU M M "Why stop now just when I'm hating it?" Marvin, the paranoid android