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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need pkarc help
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Date: 14 May 89 12:26:20 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
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In article <374.2469E1A0@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
}In article <2786@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, c328-10@sbcs.sunysb.edu (cse328 student) writes:
} >.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...

I have no problems extracting ZIP files on my Unix account....

}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.

The ARC format does not allow *any* comments.  Those were added by PKARC with
an additional data area at the end of the archive (which is why SEA ARC would
not maintain comments added by PKARC, at least for several versions after PKARC
introduced them--I haven't tried SEA ARC for a long time)

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