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Minor bug in PKARC (was Re: Binaries: ARC vs PKARC vs ZOO)

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From: John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1988 04:54
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With all the discussion of ARC vs. PKARC vs. ZOO, I thought I'd mention a
bug I noticed in PK(X)ARC, albeit a minor one.  I archived a set of files,
two of which were zero length.  When de-archived, the two empty files
failed the CRC check and were restored as 1024 bytes full of junk.

Other than that, I am totaly impressed with PK(X)ARC.  I intend to try out
ZOO one of these days and I think SEA deserves credit (and contributions)
for their efforts which popularized file compression in the MS-DOS world.
For that matter, so do, i suppose, the authors of LQ and SQZ from CP/M.

The P.D./Shareware market is a marketplace like any other.  Credit where
credit is due but let the best (wo)man win.

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John Wright      //////////////////      Phone:  902-424-3805  or  902-424-6527
Post: c/o Dr Pat Lane, Biology Dept, Dalhousie U, Halifax N.S., CANADA  B3H-4H8 
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From: lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Minor bug in PKARC (was Re: Binaries: ARC vs PKARC vs ZOO)
Message-ID: <2834@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 04:54:44 GMT
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Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Keywords: pkarc