** Quoting Nicky Morrow to Greg Schlagel:
GS> you choose your operating system for your own reasons, obviously,
  > arj was not one of them, or you would not be running os/2.
NM> 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.
Agreed.
 
GS> this is a general statement to all who are posting messages
  > similar to yours: quit whining and begging, this is an arj support
  > echo, not an os/2 whiners convention.
NM> I have posted my thoughts here recently.
Ditto.
NM> I did not whine or beg, nor will I ever concerning this subject...
Ditto.
NM> [...] 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.
The same thing will happen, to an extent, in the NYC area should I make
the same decision (I'm leaning strongly to RAR/2 at this point - I was
almost ready to do it, but figured I'd wait for v2.00 to be released -
well, v2.00 is considerably slower than v1.55, so now I'm not sure if I
will switch).  My BBS is one of the few in this area which uses ARJ as
the primary archive format.
I think it's worth noting that, on my BBS, the ARJ distribution archives
have been downloaded many times:
   126  ARJ241A.EXE
    34  ARJ250.EXE
    26  ARJ250A.EXE
    23  ARJ242B.EXE
    19  ARJ242A.EXE
    17  UNARJ241.EXE
    12  ARJ242C.EXE
     5  UNARJ32.ARJ
     4  UNARJ.ARJ
     4  UNAR2412.ARJ
The main reason most of the callers downloaded these files (particularly
the non-beta versions) is because they downloaded one or more .ARJ files
from the BBS and needed to be able to extract them!  I'm sure that the
vast majority of these downloads would not have occurred had ARJ not
been the standard archive format on my BBS.
            --From Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, Sun, 05-19-96--
                --Internet: joe.negron@consultant.com--
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