nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (08/10/88)
In article <8185@watdragon.waterloo.edu> dmnhieu@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Duy-Minh NHIEU) writes:
Some time ago some one post the Pkarc version 3.6, it was corrupted when it
arrived here at Waterloo, can some one please repost or send a copy to me
to: dmnhieu@watmum.uucp?
No. Two reasons--pk36 is fatally buggy, and I'm in the process of converting
the c.b.i.p archives to zoo format.
The reason? Well, when we used to have a .ARC standard, there was good reason
for using .ARC. Now that we're going to have three file archiving formats,
.ARC, .PAK, and .ZOO, there is no longer any reason to choose .ARC because
it's standard. Now we have to reevaluate the archivers based on their
technical/political merits. I think that we should use ZOO because the
program is explicitly free, instead of being implicitly free like the
shareware archivers. Zoo is a lot faster than Arc, and somewhat slower than
Pak.
Also, is there any way to load and execute an arc file? ie, I can pkarc a
com or exe file to save space and when I want to execute this file, I can
have some other program to load it into memory and un arc it and execute it?
Yes. Use Zoo.
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