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- From: william@cithara.login.qc.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: ARCLIST
- Message-ID: <FD1ewB1w165w@cithara.login.qc.ca>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 00:25:38 GMT
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- kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle) writes:
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- > > Does anyone have or know of a way to get the ARCLIST utility to
- > > recognize the *.arj format; it's popular in this neck o the woods.
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- > How did arj get popular?
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- I like it because it's a single executeabe.
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- > Sure, it's compression ratios are good, but the thing is a memory hog.
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- Maybe. But ARJ runs in a 320k shell from Waffle. (make, list or extract)
- I suppose if I were running Waffle in 256k there would be problems, but
- for all practical purposes I doubt that anyone is out there running a
- public Waffle on less than, say 512K.
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- Of course I'm prepared to eat my words ;).
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- William Ross
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- since 1992 william@cithara.login.qc.ca
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