mholtz@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark A. Holtz) (02/18/90)
I noticed that aprx. 95% of the files stored on simtel20 are stored
in a ARC format. The question is, WHY?
The reason why I am asking is that ZIP, LHARC, and so on have a
better compression format than old ARC.
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In article <2572@sactoh0.UUCP> mholtz@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark A. Holtz) writes: >I noticed that aprx. 95% of the files stored on simtel20 are stored >in a ARC format. The question is, WHY? Because nobody has taken the time and trouble to port this new plethora of compressers/archivers to TOPS-20. And time is often worth more than disk, especially on a DEC-10 engine. Per -- --- Per Andersson Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden perand@admin.kth.se, @nada.kth.se
w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen) (02/19/90)
In article <2572@sactoh0.UUCP> mholtz@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark A. Holtz) writes: >I noticed that aprx. 95% of the files stored on simtel20 are stored >in a ARC format. The question is, WHY? Because Phil Katz (or anyone else) has not released a C language version of a ZIP file maker (yes I know about UNZIP.C). I have been unable to find the Unix C language version of LHARC. In order to maintain the archives at SIMTEL20 I have to be able to view, extract, and make archive files. That limits me to ARC, since it is the only fully implimented archiver available. I don't like it any more than you do. It's inefficient and slow. When users upload ZIP or LHARC files I have to download them to my PC, convert them to ARCs and re-upload. That's a lot of extra work for me. About the small number of ZIP and LHarc files which are in the collection - they were not converted because the authors requested that they be distributed in a particular archive format, or because they contain subdirectories which are not supported by the version of ARC we are using. SIMTEL20 will convert its entire MSDOS collection to ZIP or LHARC as soon as a full implimentation of either is available in C language. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, & MISC archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, w8sdz@brl.arpa BITNET: w8sdz@NDSUVM1 Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz