jvc@mirror.UUCP (07/14/87)
Paul Homchick writes: >/* From <3047@watdragon.UUCP> (Jim Boritz) */ >>When ARC comes across a file in an archive that is listed as being squashed >>it does not simply issue an error message such as: [...] it tells you that >>there is an error in the archive [...] I thought that for a quasi-commercial >>piece of software, the error message was improper and insulting. >Oh, I don't know about that. For those of you who have forgotten, PKARC is >a incompatible clone of SEA ARC. And they are both somewhat "commercial" >programs competing with each other. SEA ARC is the original. Why should it >support Squashing? If VP-Planner added a new feature to it's spreadsheet, >do you think that LOTUS would support it? Would you expect them to? The first part of Jim's statement that Paul deleted (using [...]) is: "Unknown compression format. Instead" The second part of Jim's statement that Paul deleted (using [...]) is: ", and suggests that you don't know how to use the ARC program, and should go read the manual." You missed the point!! Jim was saying that when a program detected an error in the archive or detected that it may be a newer version (PKARC archives would look like it was archived with a newer version) it should not insult you by stating that the user doesn't know what s/he is doing. Read the entire message next time, including the stuff you omited using [...]!!! {Maybe you did but realized that if you left Jim's statement as it was, you wouldn't be able to respond.} As for "Why should SEAware's ARC make keep up with technology?" [this is paraphase of Paul's question] , they shouldn't unless they wish to have their program become obsolete and discarded. [Paul, I didn't change the meaning of your question with my paraphrase anymore than you changed the meaning of Jim's statement by omitting sections of his statement. (I acutally made less of a change)] jvc@mirror.tmc.com Here is the original statement as Jim wrote it: /* Written 12:59 pm Jul 8, 1987 by jjboritz@watdragon.UUCP */ When ARC comes across a file in an archive that is listed as being squashed it does not simply issue an error message such as: Unknown compression format Instead it tells you that there is an error in the archive, and suggests that you don't know how to use the ARC program, and should go read the manual. I thought that for a quasi-commercial piece of software, the error message was improper and insulting.