tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko) (03/17/88)
My thought on the question of ARC file portability is why isn't some sort of standard devised. It seems to me that with the volume of stuff going from machine to machine over phone lines this would have been an issue brought up some time ago. I would sure be nice if there was some standard DOS/UNIX/VMS/Whatever-else-turns-you-on ARC file format. How about a program that combines this compression with builtin optional uuencoding? (Maybe I need to read about data compression techniques...this program sounds like a really good 401 project for school). Tad -- Tad Marko at UNIX Connection BBS AT&T 3B2, Dallas, Texas "And the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them..." UUCP: ihnp4!killer!tad InterN: TAD%NTVAXB.DECNET@UTADNX.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (03/17/88)
In article <3721@killer.UUCP> tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko) writes: >My thought on the question of ARC file portability is why isn't some >sort of standard devised. It seems to me that with the volume of ARC is the original program from SEAware, and it's format is a standard of sorts. There are UNIX programs which do a reasonable job of handling this format, and, I'm told, a VMS ARC reader program. For a portable standard I have switched to "zoo" as being truly portable. I run it on BSD, SysV, MS-DOS, SunOS, VMS, etc. I have been told that it runs on Amiga and Atari also. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me