>> What kind of functionality do you actually miss on RAR that
>> ARJ has?
>arj is running perfectly under tsx, rar is sometimes (!) canceled with a 
memor
> protection error (accessing memory that doesn't belong to the process). 
his
> may work under dos, but tsx is a protected mode operating system with many
> tasks, so no 16-bit program may access any memory not given to this 
ogram.
Too bad. Sounds like this tsx system(?) isn't compatible enough with dos, 
since I haven't had any kind of memory-problems under plain DOS, OS/2 or NT.
>> RAR can be forced to not show those fancy ascii-graphics,
>> and act just like ARJ either by using the -std switch.
> why using a switch for a should-be-default behavior?
One can always check the apporpriate check box in RAR's settings-dialog, and 
save the settings.
I believe, that only a very small minority has a need for this switch, and 
hence the default is to show these high-ascii graphics, since people may want 
to see all the statistics, ie. "how much is yet to be compressed" and so on.
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