[comp.sources.d] PKARC: IMPORTANT NOTICE ON UNIX ARC!!!

allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (07/17/87)

As quoted from <1291@osiris.UUCP> by jdia@osiris.UUCP (Josh Diamond):
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| FLAME ON  :-( 
| FLAME ON  :-( 
| FLAME ON  :-( 
| 
| In article <1589@phred.UUCP>, craiga@phred.UUCP (Craig Arno  TE N9) writes:
| [stuff deleted]
| > As for why you haven't seen PKARC on a Unix type box; I have been told that
| > PKARC was written in Microsoft MASM (assembly) for the PC.  Assembly code 
| > is not very portable. 8-<)
| 
| I will repeat: WHY DOESN'T HE PUBLISH THE FORMAT OF HIS NEW ARC FILES? :-(
| IF PK IS SUCH A COOL DUDE, THEN HE SHOULD PUBLISH THE COMPRESSION FORMAT!!!!
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Apparently he has.

ATTENTION, ALL!!!

A UNIX ARC WITH THE ABILITY TO UNSQUASH FILES HAS BEEN POSTED TO alt.sources!
I AM FORWARDING IT TO comp.sources.misc, SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE ACCESS TO IT.

It is a "quick and dirty" hack; a "clean" version is promised soon.  It also
does not _create_ squashed files yet, but that itn't quite as important as
the ability to extract them.
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