paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.) (07/12/87)
In article <4587@iucs.UUCP> bobmon@iucs.UUCP (Che' Flamingo) writes: > Speaking of Squashing, [ ... ] > [ ... ] Both ARC and PKARC > will accept archives whose extension is something other than .ARC -- you just > need to specify the entire name-plus-extension. Accordingly, how about if > archives with Squashed entries are given an extension of .ARS? (If this > is a bit too racy for you, .ARK or .KRC (for Katz) are alternatives) The extension .ARK won't do. For an example, Phoenix Computer Products Corp. (no, they're in Norwood, MA) has a product on the market called PFORCE--that's pronounced "P 4 C". PforCe is a library of functions to assist a C programmer with menus, windows, b-trees, etc. Anyway, they provide source to their routines with the package. The source is supplied in archives with a .ARK extension, and there is an ARK.EXE program supplied to allow you to extract things from the .ARK files. ARK.EXE is copyrighted by Novum Organum, Inc. My suggestion for an alternative extension would be .PKA (the reason is left as an exercise for the reader). - paul -- UUCP: paul@devon.UUCP -or-: ...{seismo,ihnp4,cbosgd}!bpa!vu-vlsi!devon!paul "No problem is so big or so terrible that it can't be run away from." -- Linus van Pelt