[Coco] I give up on .ar files

[Diego Barizo]

Then, 2.0 should open any file except those created by 1.5?
That would make it somewhat of a "de-facto" standard version.

Diego


Dean Leiber wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 9:44 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:54:15 -0600, Neil Morrison 
>> <neilsmorr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I used to know them. 1.3 was 11 bit maximum Lempel-Ziv (non Welch, 
>> and I have no idea if I am spelling that right), and 1.4 that Bill 
>> hacked was to allow up to 12 bit (worked a lot better on larger 
>> files, which we were doing at work at the time). I am not sure what 
>> Carl K. did with 2.0.
>
> Don't forget that there is an Ar1.5 which was incompatible with Carl's 
> AR. Ar2.0 should be able to break all of the ar files except those 
> archived with ar1.5. I have a copy around here somewhere just for such 
> occasions. Also, there are incompatibe LZH archives floating around 
> were archived with the LZH 1.0 utility as well.
>
> Dean
>
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