Greg Schlagel wrote in a message to Cees Schouten:
 CS> All very nice, but what I am waiting for is an OS/2 version of ARJ.
 GS> you (and all other os/2 users) knew very well going in, that os/2
 GS> native applications are few-and-far-between.
This is far from true in this day in time.
 GS> you choose your operating system for your own reasons, obviously, 
 GS> arj was not one of them, or you would not be running os/2.
Yes, OS/2 users have their reasons...my main reason being that it
multitask far better than it's competitors and it is extremely
stable.
 GS> this is a general statement to all who are posting messages 
 GS> similar to yours: quit whining and begging, this is an arj support 
 GS> echo, not an os/2 whiners convention.
I have posted my thoughts here recently.  I did not whine or beg, nor
will I ever concerning this subject...nor did I see the msgs from 
others requesting an OS/2 version as whining or begging.  What I
pointed out was that outstanding native OS/2 versions exist in
other archivers now and that I was terminating support for arj on
my system least we get a native OS/2 version soon.  I haven't seen
one and have now terminated arj support.  My system is the major
hub for this area and the result was predictable...arj support is
drying up in the whole area.
 GS> rj's market is much, much broader than the online sysop market,
 GS> which granted does have a higher percentage of os/2 users than the
 GS> general public and business.
I agree that OS/2 is very widely used in the sysop community and
is growing more popular as we speak...and with good reason.  Sysops
push their hardware and software much harder than others and are
always testing new products.  OS/2 is proving itself to be a very
solid OS for sysops.
 GS>  from an economic and profitability standpoint, for rj to drop 
 GS> everything and push an os/2 native application out-the-door as 
 GS> soon as possible would be economic suicide for himself and his 
 GS> business. 
I submit that time will tell which decision is suicide.  Right now
I'd say that not producing a OS/2 version is closer to suicide.
Cheers,
           Nicky 
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