Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!columbia!cs.columbia.edu!cs.columbia.edu!abrams From: abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: .1 archive format? Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 90 19:05:31 GMT References: <2865@isis.UUCP> <511169@nstar.UUCP> <1990Feb6.185751.14120@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: laba-1ee@e260-4g.berkeley.edu's message of 6 Feb 90 18:57:51 GMT In article <1990Feb6.185751.14120@agate.berkeley.edu> (Gary H. Aochi) writes: >Does anyone know what the following format means? > >EMACS15E.ARC.2 > ^ >I know of arc, zip, tar, unix compress (Z), but what is that number? >Other files are of the form *.# or *.ARC.# >What is this? >Is it Unix or PC (the files are for use on a PC)? > >They aren't ASCII text, I know that much... The .2 extension is specific to DEC's Tops-20 operating system (I bet you saw this on Simtel20, right?). It keeps track of version numbers for you -- this is the second time someone has placed the emacs15e.arc file in that directory. ~~~Steve -- /************************************************* * *Steven Abrams abrams@cs.columbia.edu * **************************************************/ #include #include -- /************************************************* * *Steven Abrams abrams@cs.columbia.edu *