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From: kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: pk(un)zip
Summary: What version was the latest of PKARC?
Keywords: PKARC, PAK, ARC
Message-ID: <723@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 21 Mar 89 12:28:27 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12477289400.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> <688@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <37583@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge)
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany
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In article <37583@think.UUCP> ejb@godot.think.com.UUCP (Erik Bailey) writes:
>Well, I'll address the above. No, PKZIP is *not* .ARC compatible.
>It cannot be. By the agreement signed by PKWARE and SEA, PKWARE had
>to stop producing *all* .ARC-compatible software by Dec. 31, 1989.
>So, therefore, PKZIP cannot write nor read .ARC files.
>
>Big deal! I actually have several archive programs: SEA's ARC 5.31, for
>extracting stubborn archives with CRC errors (PK;s doesn't handle them
>as well), PKARC 3.6, LU (a .LBR utility -- anyone remember THAT??),
>and PKZIP 0.90 (haven't gotten around to getting 0.92 yet). Which one
>do I use? PKZIP whenever I can, and PKARC to extract the stuff from the
>archives I download. Incidentally, quite a few .ZIP files are appearing
>on BBSs, and a few have converted EXCLUSIVELY to .ZIP files. I myself
>converted all my ARCs to ZIPs, and use ZIP to back my 20meg HD onto
>my old 10meg (since it'll do recursive directory parsing). Under
>-eb4 -ea4 is just barely fits.

Okay, so I will need the *last* version of PKARC that has been 
produced because P.K. won't ship any of them, am I right?

Can someone *please* tell me what the very last version number
was, and *please*   >>> P O S T <<<   that version to c.b.i.p
so anyone wanting to switch to PKZIP gets the opportunity to
UNARC with a really fast ARC-compatible program *and* to gain 
size reduction by PKZIP.

Thanxa10^6 :-)

Oliver

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