Re: .1 archive format?

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From: Steven Abrams
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 19:05

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In article <1990Feb6.185751.14120@agate.berkeley.edu> (Gary H. Aochi) writes:

>Does anyone know what the following format means?
>
>EMACS15E.ARC.2
>	      ^
>I know of arc, zip, tar, unix compress (Z), but what is that number?
>Other files are of the form *.# or *.ARC.#
>What is this?
>Is it Unix or PC (the files are for use on a PC)?
>
>They aren't ASCII text, I know that much...

The .2 extension is specific to DEC's Tops-20 operating system (I bet
you saw this on Simtel20, right?).  It keeps track of version numbers
for you -- this is the second time someone has placed the emacs15e.arc
file in that directory.

~~~Steve
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