koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) (10/02/87)
Does anyone know if the ARC utility available on various PCs has been ported to UNIX? If not, has someone ported "compress" to a micro? I need to send high volumes of data between PCs and UNIX; it would be nice to be able to compress it first. +New! Improved! Now 100% Artificial-+-+-----------------------------------+ |# # @@@ **** &&&&& $$$$$ % %| |Steven Grimm | |# # @ @ * * & $ % %+-+ ARPA: koreth@ucscb.ucsc.edu | |### @ @ **** &&&& $ %%%%%| | UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ssyx!koreth| |# # @ @ * * & $ % %+-+ ______________________________| |# # @@@ * ** &&&&& $ % %| | |"Let's see what's out there."| +-----with NutraSour(TM)! No natural colors or preservatives!------------+
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (10/12/87)
In article <929@saturn.ucsc.edu> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes: |Does anyone know if the ARC utility available on various PCs has been ported to |UNIX? If not, has someone ported "compress" to a micro? I need to send high |volumes of data between PCs and UNIX; it would be nice to be able to compress |it first. I would highly recommend using the zoo package, which runs on UNIX and MSDOS (and VMS in Beta). It faster than ARC, slightly better compression, and comes with 'fiz,' a program to allow extraction of good parts from mungled archives. It was posted several months ago. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
Theodore_Ted_Manos@cup.portal.com (10/17/87)
In article <929@saturn.ucsc.edu> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes: >Does anyone know if the ARC utility available on various PCs has been ported t >UNIX? If not, has someone ported "compress" to a micro? I need to send high >volumes of data between PCs and UNIX; it would be nice to be able to compress >it first. Yes, it has been. It is currently running around a few bulliten boards under the name ARCUNX11.ARC. If you can't find it, or don't have the facility to unARC it, let me know and I'll be happy to get a copy to you (via one of the nets, a board, or direct connect). The ARC methodology is becoming very wide- spread in it's use, and there are now versions available even for IBM PC arch- enemy Macintosh! In practice, I have found it to more than rival other methods such as ZOO, which is just now starting to appear in the PC world, in terms of speed, compression, and ease of use. There are now a good number of utilities available that work with ARCed files, and menu systems to make it's use even simpler and more convenient. There is one caveat about ARCed files however that you may not be aware of. Phil Katz developed a program some months ago that is a superset of the standard ARC developed by S.E.A.. It is called PKARC, and is quite excellent - much faster than ARC, and many additional features. However, in his newer versions, he introduced a newer compression methodology known as Squashing. While it is very good, and can produce even greater space savings, it is NOT compatible with the standard ARC program at this time. Hopefully S.E.A. will include it in their future releases (Vern Buerg's ARCA/ARCE now support it). Phil did however include an option switch to disable the use of Squashing, so so that full compatibility can be maintained. -> Ted Manos tmanos@cup.portal.com Alpha Omega Consulting Group, LTD ucbvax!sun!cup!portal!tmanos 400 Springhill Drive CIS - 71250,2761 Roselle, IL 60172 Source - est321 USA Genie - tmanos Office: 1 (312) 980-7919 Portal - tmanos Mobile: 1 (312) 590-0298 -- and others -- ************************** NON-DISCALIMER ************************************ * My company agrees with my views completely - I hold all of the stock! * ****************************************************************************** o its UOFT02 VAX/VMS system: (419) 537-4411 Service class VX785A User: KERMIT Password: KERMIT Source and hex files are in KER:, binaries are in KERBIN: 3. Oklahoma State University: UUCP and Kermit access to the complete Kermit distribution is available from the Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. The procedures are somewhat complicated, and are described in a separate file, AANOKS.DOC. [End of AANETW.HLP] . The resonating