Hello Hans!
 > So where would the market be for an OS/2 version of ARJ and/or JAR? 
 > The small numbers of SysOps which have had traditionally tight
 > budgets and prefer freeware?  OS/2 in the consumer market is dead,
 > and the corporate market is embracing NT.  Where does that leave
 > OS/2???  1996 was "The Year of the Browser".  Was there even one
 > single browser for OS/2 that hit the retail shelf in 1996?  Nope. 
You are wondering way off topic here Hans...I invite you to e-mail
where I'll give you the list that starts with NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR/2.
 > Have you written to IBM lately and asked them why "Merlin" sales
 > are as dead as a doornail?
Have you written several OS/2 retailers why they are having a hard
time keeping it in stock?
 > Did you ever scratch your head and ask why larger companies, such
 > as PKWare, have not bothered to support OS/2 since PKZ102-2.EXE
 > 258,034 bytes, dated 10/01/89 01:02 ?
PKZip/2 is in beta at this time...a fully modern version. I am
scratching my head at this point...
 > It's the old chicken-egg question, and traditionally the approach
 > has been to analyze available software to accomplish tasks first,
 > *then* decide on the operating system and hardware!
I did... Arj is certainly not necessary...too many good alternatives.
We just thought rj might want to come along for the ride.
 > You know, I'm getting increasingly tired of OS/2 users insisting on
 > so-called "native" applications for their orphaned operating
 > system.
You get tired of it because there are a lot of OS/2 users out here
and the Arj echo seems to be an appropriate place to put requests
concerning Arj.
Nicky
Internet: nrmorrow@cybertron.com
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