VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET (04/14/88)
UNIX Toolkit ? Whatever is that ? Must be one more of all those goodies that
we here in the backwoods of BITNET/EARN never get to see ...
Let's make a deal: someone sends me the uuencoded arc file, and I'll decode
it back home on my IBM, and send the problem files back to him ... ;-)
Seriously: is there anyone out there who could write a new ARC version for the
ST that includes all IBM Arc compression methods ??? Also, the ST Arc is *so*
slow, it could use a little speedup. Alternatively, one could use the DCOPY
utility, but that doesn't seem to arc correctly (unarcing works fine, and 4x
as fast as ST Arc).
(NB: If YOU REALLY want to send me a copy of that archive, send me a note
first. I don't want to get crushed by thousands of postings ... ;-)
Bitnet: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1 Volker A. Brandt
UUCP: ...!unido!DBNUAMA1.bitnet!vbrandt (?) Angewandte Mathematik
ARPAnet: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (?) (Bonn, West Germany)leo@sunybcs.uucp (Leo Wilson) (04/15/88)
In article <8804141613.AA08392@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET writes: >Seriously: is there anyone out there who could write a new ARC version for the >ST that includes all IBM Arc compression methods ??? If you follow alt.sources, the guy who ported arc 5.2 to BSD said something about beginning a port to his ST in a couple of days. In any event, the arc posted in alt.sources works on BSD, or seems to so far. I only compiled it today and need to check into it further before asking the site manager to actually install it. Does 5.2 have "all IBM Arc compression methods"? Please note that I have nothing more to do with arc than using it, and I don't know Howard personally (he's done a number of good things for the ST), so this is PURE RUMOR for the time being... Leo E. Wilson 364 West Delavan Avenue Buffalo, NY 14213 (716)883-7573 (leo@gort.cs.Buffalo.EDU) ...!sunybcs[!leow]!leo leo@sunybcs.bitnet
acn@caen.engin.umich.edu (netnews_boy) (04/16/88)
In article <10192@sunybcs.UUCP>, leo@sunybcs.uucp (Leo Wilson) writes: > In article <8804141613.AA08392@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET writes: > >Seriously: is there anyone out there who could write a new ARC version for the > >ST that includes all IBM Arc compression methods ??? > > If you follow alt.sources, the guy who ported arc 5.2 to BSD said something > about beginning a port to his ST in a couple of days. In any event, the arc > posted in alt.sources works on BSD, or seems to so far. I only compiled it > today and need to check into it further before asking the site manager to > actually install it. Does 5.2 have "all IBM Arc compression methods"? > > Please note that I have nothing more to do with arc than using it, and > I don't know Howard personally (he's done a number of good things for the > ST), so this is PURE RUMOR for the time being... > Leo E. Wilson 364 West Delavan Avenue Buffalo, NY 14213 (716)883-7573 > (leo@gort.cs.Buffalo.EDU) ...!sunybcs[!leow]!leo leo@sunybcs.bitnet I do know Howard personally. And to the best of my knowledge, he is porting it to the ST this weekend. No vapor ware here... :-) Jon Brode -- acn@caen.engin.umich.edu