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In article <JIM.90Aug1125737@baroque.Stanford.EDU> jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes:

[stuff about the Katz/Henderson war over ARC and PKARC

>The battle was still raging when Lucky gave his talk last year.  Does
>anyone know what's happened since to Henderson|Katz|ARC|PKARC|PKPACK?

Yes. Phil Katz wrote a much better program, called PKZIP. Its more efficient
on compression, is probably a little slower, but much nicer to use. End of
war. People who still use the ARC format are in the dark ages.  Its shareware,
but the ZIP format is public domain.

For what it's worth, I thought that the basis of the suit was that Henderson
owned the filename extension '.ARC'.  Maybe we should write free code for
everyone but lawyers? :)

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In article <JIM.90Aug1125737@baroque.Stanford.EDU> jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes:

[stuff about the Katz/Henderson war over ARC and PKARC

>The battle was still raging when Lucky gave his talk last year.  Does
>anyone know what's happened since to Henderson|Katz|ARC|PKARC|PKPACK?

Yes. Phil Katz wrote a much better program, called PKZIP. Its more efficient
on compression, is probably a little slower, but much nicer to use. End of
war. People who still use the ARC format are in the dark ages.  Its shareware,
but the ZIP format is public domain.

For what it's worth, I thought that the basis of the suit was that Henderson
owned the filename extension '.ARC'.  Maybe we should write free code for
everyone but lawyers? :)