> JN>RJ> [...] From a business point of view, I get more requests for a UNIX
> JN> > version of ARJ than for an OS/2 version of ARJ. However, I am
> JN> > working on an OS/2 version and not on a UNIX version currently.
> JN>If this is true, why not create a UNIX version first?
> Too many machine binary types to support. If I chose one, it would be the
> Linux or BSD platform.
> JN>RJ> In any case, I am considering the future with my new project, JAR,
> JN> > which offers multi-platform support and significantly better
> JN> > compression than ARJ.
> JN>Multi-platform? Do you intend to release an OS/2 version of JAR? And,
> JN>if so, will this version be released at the same time as the DOS
ersion
> JN>(which I assume to be your primary platform), or is it going to take
> JN>forever to release a non-DOS version? By "forever" I refer to your
> JN>claims of *years* ago to release an OS/2 version of ARJ. Specifically:
> Because of my time constraints, someone else is building JAR. It now
orks
> on DOS, Windows 95, and Windows NT (three platforms already). If the
demand
> is there, JAR/2 will be built.
Oh well, that's as good an answer as a wise person should expect. Sounds
like
ARJ/RAJ will be a MS based program. You and I are on different tracks. Best
of success in your direction, I'm riding my train till the end of the line.
C-ya!
Raymond
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