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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need pkarc help
Message-ID: <374.2469E1A0@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 11 May 89 19:12:53 GMT
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In article <2786@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, c328-10@sbcs.sunysb.edu (cse328 student) writes:

 >In article <18700@dcatla.UUCP> pmswl@sunb.UUCP (Scott W. Leonard) writes:
 >>
 >>I'm looking for a pkarc utility that adds a large comment file to the
 >>beginning of a .arc file.  I have similar programs that adds comments to
 >>.zip files from a pre-made text file, but nothing for .arc files.  If
 >>anybody has such a utility, could you please email me a copy.
 >>
 >>                Thanks
 >>                Scott Leonard
 >
 >why?  the .arc format has been superceded by .zip
 >[...]
 >.zip gives you everything you want and more, so why are you still working 
 >with .arc?

I can think of two reasons that I still use ARC, and they are named Unix
and AmigaDOS.  PKZIP has been ported to neither of these, while ARC
has.  In addition, c.b.i.p is still using ARC, so I wouldn't exactly
call it dead...

To answer Scott's original question, you can't.  The ARC format only allows
a one-line comment.  Because the ZIP format was created from scratch, the
bigger comment was one of the things added.

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