ravi@mcnc.UUCP (04/12/87)
In article <6261@ukma.ms.uky.csnet> sean@ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) writes: >That may result in a few saved bytes for Usenet, but it will inconvenience a >lot of users. ARC does two things: archiving and compressing. For those that >use xmodem, they must download sources one file at a time. With ARC, they >can do one transfer and get the whole mess. AND it insures that file padding >will not invalidate an executable binary. > The recent posting of ARC (for Unix) works beautifully with the micro versions of ARC (on the Amiga & ST at least). I've found that a nice alternative to transferring bunches of files one by one with x/y/zmodem (which I prefer because its faster than kermit) is to make an archive on the vax and split it up after downloading.. Also, it's nice to be able to check a posted archive's integrity first, instead of going through all the trouble of downloading it only to find that it's messed up. (This doesn't have to do with the earlier arc/not-arc debate, but it's made my life easier on many occasions). -ravi