[Coco] Downloading software from Larry Greenfield's site?

[Willard Goosey]

>From: KnudsenMJ at aol.com
>Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 15:08:34 EST

>In a message dated 12/13/03 4:45:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
>goosey at virgo.sdc.org writes:
>
>> Also, The Compressor .arc files are not PKARC type arc files. 
>
>Are either of these the same type as from the usual AR command?
>Probably not, since AR is an OS-9 utility (I think, CRAFT and all that ...)

Well, I've never really looked at the formats, but AFAIK they're all
different.  There are utilities for OS-9 to handle The Compressor and
PKARC files.  I don't know if AR was ever done for DECB.

(And yes, I know PKARC was the clone, but I don't remember who created
.ARC originally.  SEAware, maybe?)
>
>I also remember, from the Delphi/CIS days, the PACK utility that made
>.PAK archives.  These were OK, except if any extra bytes got added to
>the end of the .PAK file, it broke the de-archiver.  Since XModem and
>YModem usually padded out the last sector to a full 256 bytes, this
>happened most of the time.

We do have a pak utility for OS-9.

>--Mike K.

Willard
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