[comp.sys.atari.st] New ARC somewhere?

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

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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.