Robert Jung spewed forth in a message to Kevin Berry:
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?
RJ> Actually, both LHA 2 and ARJ 0.13 were based upon AR001 by H.
RJ> Okimura. That original archiver had no host support and only a few
RJ> functions.  ARJ was based upon the LHArc command set because I felt
RJ> it was better than PKZIP.  
That was a good decision.
RJ> The skeleton that I plan to publish does add a lot of functionality
RJ> over AR001. However, that is necessary to help build real working
RJ> versions of ARJ for OS/2 and LINUX, etc.
Thanks for the explanation.  And, as I'm about to install FreeBSD on this 
system, when the skeleton is released, I think I'll try and make a BSD port.
Later Days,
Kevin or 
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