pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) (01/20/87)
I am interested in obtaining a copy of the latest version of ARC for the
IBM-PC. If possible I would like sources that are compilable with Lattice
C. Please mail an offer, and I will contact the closest person.
-Israel
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
UUCP: {amdcad,decwrl,hplabs,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel}!intelca!mipos3!pinkas
ARPA: pinkas%mipos3.intel.com@relay.cs.net
CSNET: pinkas%mipos3.intel.comjason@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Jason A. Kinchen) (01/21/87)
In article <374@mipos3.UUCP>, pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) writes: > I am interested in obtaining a copy of the latest version of ARC for the > IBM-PC. If possible I would like sources that are compilable with Lattice > C. Please mail an offer, and I will contact the closest person. > > -Israel > -- I am interested in the same package with sources, except for Microsoft C 3.0. Please put me on this list. Thanks. -- Jason Kinchen jason@media-lab.MIT.EDU
ben@catnip.UUCP (01/23/87)
In article <629@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> jason@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Jason A. Kinchen) writes: >In article <374@mipos3.UUCP>, pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) writes: >> I am interested in obtaining a copy of the latest version of ARC for the >> IBM-PC. If possible I would like sources that are compilable with Lattice >> C. Please mail an offer, and I will contact the closest person. > >I am interested in the same package with sources, except for Microsoft >C 3.0. Please put me on this list. The sources to arc are compatible with neither Lattice nor Microsoft C. They require the Computer Innovations C86 optimizing compiler, and a special macro preprocessor sold by SEAware, the same company that sells arc. (Remember, arc is shareware, not public domain) Porting it to either Lattice or Microsoft without spending any money would involve expanding the macros by hand, and recoding the few routines that are dependent on library calls specific to the CI86 development system. Actually, I can't believe that people are still using ARC. Phil Katz's PKXARC program is about 10 times the speed of the original arc, produces archives 100% compatible with SEAware arc, and is a pleasure to use. -- Ben Broder {ihnp4,decvax} !hjuxa!catnip!ben {houxm,clyde}/
dlnash@ut-ngp.UUCP (01/24/87)
In article <456@catnip.UUCP>, ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder) writes: > > Actually, I can't believe that people are still using ARC. Phil Katz's > PKXARC program is about 10 times the speed of the original arc, produces > archives 100% compatible with SEAware arc, and is a pleasure to use. > PKXARC may be faster than ARC, but it only extracts files from archives. A separate program, PKARC, is needed to create archives. I find this to be a real bother, especially since ARC does both. Besides, ARC was recently ported to BSD and I am putting the finishing touches on a VMS version which I will post soon. Each can read and write archives written by the other two, and hopefully archives written by PKARC. PKXARC and PKARC are written in MASM if I remember right, so it is unlikely that they will be ported to other systems. I think that in the future, we may see people using ARC on mainframes of various flavors and using PKARC on PCs. Don Nash UUCP: ...!{ihnp4, allegra, seismo!ut-sally}!ut-ngp!dlnash ARPA: dlnash@ngp.CC.UTEXAS.EDU BITNET: CCEU001@UTADNX, DLNASH@UTADNX UUU UUU U U The University of Texas at Austin U TTTTUTTTTTTTTT Computation Center U T U TT T U U TT "The world is basically non-linear." UUUUUUU TT TT TTTT
w8sdz@brl-smoke.UUCP (01/25/87)
Phil Katz's latest arc program PKX34A20.COM (which self-extracts PKARC and PKXARC .com's and .doc's) is available from SIMTEL20 as: PD:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>PKX34A20.COM It may be obtained via Internet FTP or from the archive server via netmail. This is a BINARY(8) file on SIMTEL20, set FTP parameters accordingly.
alexande@drivax.UUCP (01/27/87)
In article <4564@ut-ngp.UUCP> dlnash@ut-ngp.UUCP (Donald L. Nash) writes: >PKXARC may be faster than ARC, but it only extracts files from archives. >A separate program, PKARC, is needed to create archives. I find this to >be a real bother, especially since ARC does both. How much more of a bother is it to type pkxarc blorch.arc ... then to type arc x blorch.arc ... I mean, really! Not all of us are so lucky as to be using the yuppiest new 386 machines that make even the slowest software acceptably fast. I found ARC to be so slow on my total-garbage-el-stinko 4.77 Mhz PC as to be unusable. In contrast, the Phil Katz programs are so fast as to make any minor inconveniences in command syntax irrelevant. And on the 386, PK{X}ARC is incredible. If you can't stand the syntax, use little batch files to hide it. >I think that in the future, we may see people using ARC on mainframes of >various flavors and using PKARC on PCs. Agreed. I only use ARC on the VAX, where it's about as fast as PK{X}ARC on a PC. -- Mark Alexander ...{hplabs,ucbvax!decvax}!decwrl!pyramid!amdahl!drivax!alexande "This then is my story. I have reread it. It has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies." --Nabokov
goldste@uthub.toronto.edu (Jack Goldstein) (01/30/87)
>Actually, I can't believe that people are still using ARC. Phil Katz's >PKXARC program is about 10 times the speed of the original arc, produces >archives 100% compatible with SEAware arc, and is a pleasure to use. Does anyone know if there is a version of PKXARC that runs on BSD (or other UNIX based) systems? If not, how portable is the source code? Thanks. Jack Goldstein University of Toronto -- Toronto, Canada UUCP: {decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo,uw-beaver}!utcsri!uthub!goldste ARPA: goldste%hub.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net CSNET: goldste@hub.toronto.edu CDNNET: goldste@hub.toronto.cdn BITNET: goldste@hub.utoronto
bentrup@uiucdcsp.UUCP (01/31/87)
/* 2:30 pm Jan 27, 1987 by alexande@drivax.UUCP in uiucdcsp:comp.sys.ibm.pc */ >I think that in the future, we may see people using ARC on mainframes of >various flavors and using PKARC on PCs. Agreed. I only use ARC on the VAX, where it's about as fast as PK{X}ARC on a PC. Mark Alexander ...{hplabs,ucbvax!decvax}!decwrl!pyramid!amdahl!drivax!alexande "This then is my story. I have reread it. It has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies." --Nabokov /* End of text from uiucdcsp:comp.sys.ibm.pc */ Can someone please tell me how to obtain a copy of ARC for a VAX system? thanks, john arpa bentrup@a.cs.uiuc.edu bentrup@uiuc.ARPA csnet bentrup@uiuc.csnet usenet ihnp4!uiucdcs!bentrup
keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser) (02/02/87)
>Does anyone know if there is a version of PKXARC that runs on BSD (or >other UNIX based) systems? If not, how portable is the source code? >Thanks. > > Jack Goldstein > University of Toronto -- Toronto, Canada As far as I know, PK{X}ARC is written in 8088 assembly language, so I think you'll have a hard time porting it to UN*X. -- Kees | UUCP : keeshu@nikhefk.uucp or : {[wherever]!seismo}!mcvax!nikhefk!keeshu | FIDO : kees huyser at 28/9 or 500/11 | BITNET : u00212@hasara5.bitnet | SNAIL : kees huyser, NIKHEF-K, PO Box 4395, 1009 AJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
iadt3tb@gitpyr.UUCP (02/03/87)
References:
][
A month or so ago, I got a source code copy of ARC for unix systems
off the net. It works just like ARC for the IBM-PC/MS-DOS world.
Except, my copy extracts files just fine however it will not produce
a good archive file. I'm hoping that a new copy that some kind soul
will mail to me will perform as it should.
Thanks,
T. Terrell Banks
Georgia Insitute of Technology
Information Systems and Applications
190 Third Street NW
Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Internet: iadt3tb@pyr.gatech.edu
uucp: ...!{akgua,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo}!gatech!gitpyr!iadt3tb
Bitnet: iadt3tb@gitvm1davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (02/05/87)
In article <360@uthub.toronto.edu> goldste@uthub.UUCP (Jack Goldstein) writes: >Does anyone know if there is a version of PKXARC that runs on BSD (or >other UNIX based) systems? If not, how portable is the source code? The documentation says it's written in assembler. Except for the XENIX folks, that's pretty unportable to UNIX. -- bill davidsen sixhub \ ihnp4!seismo!rochester!steinmetz -> crdos1!davidsen chinet / ARPA: davidsen%crdos1.uucp@crd.ge.com (or davidsen@crd.ge.com)
jeh@hou2d.UUCP (02/10/87)
For whoever was looking for an ARC which is compatible to non MS-DOS systems, there is a ZOO archiver available which takes all the same commands as ARC, runs faster and has been ported to UNIX. There is an on-going discussion of various archivers going on on a bulletin board - if you have a modem then pitch in - It's Magpie BBS at 212 - 420 - 0527. Problem with arc is that it has records of 23 bytes which is definately not portable to any micro that requires even-byte boundary allignment. There is another even better archiver which is faster than PKARC or ZOO and is written completely in C. It is available from the author through Magpie. Since DWC is still a prototype version, the author is open for suggestions. Hope I've been of some help - Everybodys got to be somewhere.
mikem@athena.UUCP (02/18/87)
Would someone please be so kind as to mail me the arc program which was posted some time ago to the net. If I remember it was posted in a series of uuencoded articles. No hurry, but I would appreciate it. Mike +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | | | Michael E. Meyer (503) 629-1553 | | Product Manager | | Engineering Information Management Products | | ___ __ ___ __ _ | | | |__ |_/ | |_\ | | |\ | | \/ | | | |__ | \ | | | |_| | \| | /\ | | Committed to Excellence | | | | CAE Systems Division | | P.O. Box 4600, DS 92-824 | | Beaverton, OR USA 97076 | | | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+
cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (08/31/87)
I have a basic question about .arc files which I have created as a result of a uudecode... What do I do now? Thanks much! /Carl ...decvax!mcnc!unccvax!cbenda