kirchner@uklirb (02/06/88)
Hello Netlanders, has anybody seen a newer ARC than the one we are using now ( is 5.12 ) ? Why I ask: I collected some arc-ed files from the pc-bin-group to be run on a collegue's PC, and most of them I can unARC with ARC-5.12 without any problems. Now I got some, where ARC says it cannot unARC and : 'perhaps you need a newer version of ARC?'. In the PC-Group they speek about something called ARC 5.2.1, PKARC, PKXARC etc. I also have read somewhere the term 'squashed' for an even higher compression then 'crunched'. So, if somebody has such a newer version of ARC: Please post it to us all( ARCed in the OLD way !! ). If possible please post the source also, so we can install it on UNIX-Machines and can download binaries etc. Thanks to all Super-ARCers Reinhard Kirchner University of Kaiserslautern Computer Science P.O.Box 3049 D-6750 Kaiserslautern W-Germany Arpa: kirchner@uklirb@unido or: kirchner%uklirb.uucp%germany.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET CSNET: kirchner%uklirb%uka.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa UUCP: ..{mcvax!}unido!uklirb!kirchner
Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com (02/24/88)
PKARC/PKXARC are (almost) unique to the IBM PC. ARC 5.12 is the latest rev as far as packing formats, but ARC 5.20 (on PCs) could create self-unpacking archives (a .exe file that unarced itself). I have done enough porting to have created a simple unarc which handled squashed files (PKARCed - using 14 bit LZ without repeat packing) for the ST. But PKXarc runs under PC Ditto, so you can use that as well.