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In article <15279@reed.UUCP>, minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson
Minar,L08,x640,7776519) writes:

|> 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.

  They are both shareware, ARC gives out the source so you can use it on
non-PC systems. The PK versions were quite a bit faster, actually, but a
lot harder to use, since they have a separate program for compress and
uncompress. ARC (and zoo, dwc, and lharc) put it all in one program with
one user interface.
|> 
|> 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? :)

  SEAware claimed that PK used some of their code in his competing
product. They had an independent consultant look at both sources, and
testify on the matter. Right after that PJ settled out of court and
promised not to compete (with any program processing ARC files) again.

  The testimony was sealed, but I doubt that the expert said the sources
were completely different.
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