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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Kurt Weiske
from: Gene Buckle
date: 2018-06-18 13:51:20
subject: Re: Microsoft and GitHub

Re: Re: Microsoft and GitHub
  By: Kurt Weiske to Daryl Stout on Sun Jun 17 2018 08:39 am

 > Glad we don't have to go through the Archiver Wars again  -- ARC versus
 > ZIP, PAK is just as good, really... ARJ and LZH shaving off a tiny bit of
 > space at the expense of compatibility...

I recall a local BBS (Pacific Northwest Archive if memory serves) went big into
DWC when it came out. He converted every compressed file in the file areas to
DWC.  I don't recall what the next "big thing" was after that,
but I think it
was ARJ.

g.
--- SBBSecho 2.27-Win32
* Origin: The Retro Archive (1:138/142)
SEEN-BY: 57/0 116/102 135/376 153/250 226/20 100 250/3 267/800 317/2 3 393/68
SEEN-BY: 633/267 280 640/384 712/620 848 770/0 1 100 330 340 772/0 1 210 500
@PATH: 138/142 146 153/7715 250 770/1 712/848 633/267

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