Date   : Mon, 01 Jun 1992 17:24:17 MET DST
From   : Gerben 'P' Vos <gpvos@...>
Subject: Re: posting software

On Saturday May 30, 1992 Tom Hughes wrote in reply to Richard York:

>I have a copy of this, which is basically a cut down version of arc
>(actually written by Bart Bruns, together with uuencode and decode.
>The only problem is that the archiving part of the software has a bug
>in it, so files often fail the CRC when unpacking.

And miss a bunch of bytes at the end.

>                                                   Gerben gives a
>workaround in the documentation (ading a few bytes to the file before
>packing it), but I found that with long files I had to add a lot of
>bytes (like several hundered) which is slightly annoying.

>This may be fixed by now, I don't know. If it is fixed Gerben, then
>please tell me (and where I can get the fix).`

No, it hasn't been fixed yet, to my knowledge. I have reported the bug, and
Bart knows about it, but he doesn't have the time to fix it. It was probably
hard enough to port Arc to assembler. I could try to obtain the source code
from him, if anyone wants to try to fix it, but no guarantees...

BTW, that BFM (sp?) program sounds good. What does it do exactly? Does it
only wrap the files with their addresses, or can it also compress them
(i don't think that's necessary, you can always compress or arc them
afterwards)? Can it handle multiple files, or only one?

Greetings,
                                       <>< Gerben.