** Quoting Sean Turner to Joe Negron:
JN> The main reason most of the callers downloaded these files
  > (particularly the non-beta versions) is because they downloaded one
  > or more .ARJ files from the BBS and needed to be able to extract
  > them! I'm sure that the vast majority of these downloads would not
  > have occurred had ARJ not been the standard archive format on my BBS.
ST> most of the bbses here keep the file in the original format.
Most BBS's I know of which use something other than ZIP do convert files
to the BBS's standard archive format.
ST> I'm sure that a few don't even have arj. Of the first 5 files that I
  > downloaded, 1 or 2 were arj, so I did need it relatively early.
I think ARJ is losing favor, at least among BBSers (sysops and users) -
my guess is that a lot of RAR's gains are coming at ARJ's expense.  And,
that doesn't consider that SDN went back to ZIP from ARJ. 
            --From Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, Wed, 05-29-96--
                --Internet: joe.negron@consultant.com--
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