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echo: arj
to: BRYAN RAPP
from: JOE NEGRON
date: 1996-05-23 19:36:00
subject: RCVT vs. REARJ

** Quoting Bryan Rapp to Joe Negron:
BR> REARJ is still a very good archive converter (but, so is RCVT).
JN> RCVT is not nearly as good as REARJ.  RCVT's biggest problem (for
  > me) is that it does not allow one to specify the temp. directory.
  > This is a problem in converting archives - if one is to maintain
  > the file order in the archive, the archive must be extracted to a
  > FAT partition since if it is extracted to an HPFS partition HPFS
  > will automatically sort the filenames by name.  REARJ, since it
BR> Remember though, RCVT is mainly for conversion to RAR.  RAR
  > will, by default, re-order the files in a solid archive anyway.
So, that leaves BBS Sysops out of consideration, not exactly the group
that should be ignored if one wants an archive standard to be accepted.
:)
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