In a message of , Kevin Berry (1:124/3210.2) writes: 
 KB> Robert Jung spewed forth in a message to Barrie Smith:
RJ> I did not do this before because of the risk of giving away a full
RJ> skeleton of an archiver program.  Someone could make use of it to
RJ> make a good archiver.  However, currently there are a lot of good
RJ> archivers out there. 
 KB> No offense or anything meant, but isn't that you got ARJ, by using the 
 KB> LHArc source code?
Actually, both LHA 2 and ARJ 0.13 were based upon AR001 by H. Okimura. That 
original archiver had no host support and only a few functions.  ARJ was 
based upon the LHArc command set because I felt it was better than PKZIP. 
I later replaced the original compressor with my own at ARJ 2 and added 
hundreds of functions.
So it would take many months of work to convert AR001 to a marketable 
archiver.
The skeleton that I plan to publish does add a lot of functionality over 
AR001. However, that is necessary to help build real working versions of ARJ 
for OS/2 and LINUX, etc.
Regards,
Robert Jung
 
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