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Article #26298Re: Binaries: ARC vs PKARC vs ZOO
From: Raymond Juimong Chen
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1988 14:43
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1988 14:43
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In article <230@unsvax.UUCP>, tlhingan@unsvax.UUCP (Eugene Tramaglino) writes:
> Personal Note: I cannot stand pkarc. I prefer ARC's one (1) program
> that does the job just as well. I don't like invoking different
> commands to 'v' an archive and 'e' an archive.
You've got to be kidding. Do you use V.Buerg's ARCE program for
fast de-archiving? If so, then you have no reason to complain.
Rename PKARC.COM to ARC.COM and PKXARC.COM to ARCE.COM, and
nothing will have changed; except that you'll notice that everything
happens much much faster than before.
If it STILL bothers you that you have to type two different commands,
you can do the following:
ARC.BAT
if !%1==!e goto unarc
pkarc -oct %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
goto end
:unarc
pkxarc %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
:end
There. Now this ARC.BAT acts *just like the original*; the -oct option
to pkarc guarantees that PKARC will not do any squashing, for those of
you whose UN*X machines can't handle squashed archives.
(Well, I lied when I said it works just like the original. It's faster.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!rutgers!princeton!phoenix!rjchen From: rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Binaries: ARC vs PKARC vs ZOO Message-ID: <2470@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 10 Apr 88 14:43:09 GMT References: <24494@clyde.ATT.COM> Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 33