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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The latest version of ARC
Message-ID: <5200@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 89 21:56:00 GMT
References: <2505@lll-lcc.UUCP> <570@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <570@chyde.uwasa.fi> ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes:
}In article <2505@lll-lcc.UUCP> coleman@lll-lcc.UUCP (Sam Coleman) writes:
}>
}>  In extracting files from an ARC archive, my copy of ARC complained that
}>  it couldn't extract a file and said that I need a later version.  Since
}>  mine is dated in 1986 (version 5.2), it seems reasonable that it's out
}>  of date.
}
}The latest version is 6.02 to my knowledge, but if the files have
}been packed with pkarc or pkpak getting 6.02 will not help you as
}far as I know.

SEA ARC versions 5.30 and up can extract PKARC "squashed" files (they are
called "deviant").  Note that ARC 6.0x can create archives which are not
readable by any of ARC 5.x or PKARC or NoGate's PAK....


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