anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson) (01/22/91)
I'm looking to write a program on the Macintosh that will
take an ASCII-only file and create an arc file that can
be de-compressed by a PC on the other end of a modem.
I have already tried the commercial Mac products that claim
to be able to do this, and they can't.
Does anyone here know where I might find a description of
the arc file format so that I may do my own arc-compatible
compression? I know little about PC's, so if there is a better
(or more widely used) compression standard, I'd like to hear
about it. I would need some reference on how to create the
file...
Thanks in advance...
--clark
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-----------------------------------------------------------davidsen@antarctica.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) (01/22/91)
In article <48326@apple.Apple.COM>, anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson) writes: |> I'm looking to write a program on the Macintosh that will |> take an ASCII-only file and create an arc file that can |> be de-compressed by a PC on the other end of a modem. You might just take the UNIX version of arc (there are several, you need the one which works on sysV) and port it. -- Bill Davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com, uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 386users mailing list "This is your PC. This is your PC on OS/2. Any questions?"