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Dale and others,

    PK361 does indeed work on the Rainbow. I've been using it
successfully for about a month, roughly since it's release.
I found it on a PC bbs; it runs fine under DOS on my Rainbow
- no need for DIBEM or Code Blue. If you're concerned about
viruses, trojan horses, ... ad absurdam, _and_ you have FTP
access, just download it from the IDM files area: Rob Locke
has placed a copy there.

    There is a slightly older version of PKARC around - version 3.60.
It's supposed to have a bug which sometimes loses track of interrupt
vectors. This is known to occur on PC's, but given the different
interrupt structure on the Rainbow I don't know if we're affected also.
Your safest bet, though, is to get v3.61. My only complaint about this
version is that the names have been changed; now it's PKPAK and PKUNPAK.
This change was required as part of the settlement of a lawsuit brought
by the original developers of ARC. Personally I think the lawsuit
stinks: it centered on the "look and feel" of PKARC/PKXARC rather than
the data compression techniques themselves. ( Question: What's the
difference between a dead lawyer lying in the middle of a road and
a dead skunk? Answer: the skid marks in front of the skunk. :-)

  Rob, how about sending out a list of programs currently in the
INFO-DEC-MICRO files area on Drycas? Perhaps this could be done at
regular intervals, or at least announcements of new uploads.
What do you say?

George

P.S. Dale, you must have a corrupted version of PK361. Are you
sure you downloaded it as a binary file? If it was sent via e-mail,
was it hexified first (with something like uuencode)?

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