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echo: arj
to: VILLE HIETARINTA
from: BERND FLODER
date: 1997-10-03 13:18:00
subject: Why Arj?

Ville,
you wrote in a message:
>arj is running perfectly under tsx, rar is sometimes (!) canceled with a
>memory  protection error (accessing memory that doesn't belong 
 VH> Too bad. Sounds like this tsx system(?) isn't compatible
 VH> enough with dos, since I haven't had any kind of
 VH> memory-problems under plain DOS, OS/2 or NT. 
tsx is compatible enough to run a lot of dos software, including fido tosser, 
mailer, bbs software, windows 3.1 (in standard mode), a few games, and much 
more. i heard that the rar dos version running in an os/2 dos window is also 
making troubles.
[-std switch]
 VH> I believe, that only a very small minority has a need for
 VH> this switch, and hence the default is to show these
i know that i'm not the typical pc user with my vt100 terminals, touchscreen 
and pseudo-telnet sessions to control 4 pc's from one vga screen.
 VH> high-ascii graphics, since people may want to see all the
 VH> statistics, ie. "how much is yet to be compressed" and so
 VH> on. 
all what i want to see from a packer is the message 'finished' :-) i'm not 
interested in statistics.
by(e)
 Bernd
--- TSX 4.26
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* Origin: BDF-Box 2:310/81.0 - Local TSX line (2:310/81.1)

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