ARC standards
William E. Davidsen Jr
davidsen at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP
Fri Mar 18 00:17:14 AEST 1988
In article <3721 at killer.UUCP> tad at 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 at ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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