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echo: os2prog
to: Nicky Morrow
from: Joe Negron
date: 1996-08-01 15:38:48
subject: Arj/2

** Quoting Nicky Morrow to Joe Negron:

JN> ARJ has many features lacking in other archivers, and is, by far,
  > the most configurable and flexible archiver available.  [...]
NM> Concur with your assessment 100% Joe.  [...] I couldn't help but ask
  > what arj was written in.

Turbo/Borland C, with assembler optimizations.

NM> The answer, while not from rj, was C.  Info-Zip is written in C and
  > the source is freely available...could rj not do a little "learning"
  > from this code?  Maybe a filesend could be in order?...

I've suggested Info-ZIP to Robert a long time ago.  I've also sent him
code for handling EAs (which, at one point, he mentioned as a stumbling
block).

            --From Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, Thu, 08-01-96--
                --Internet: joe.negron{at}consultant.com--

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