Hello Gilbert,
Wednesday October 01 1997, Gilbert Doyen writes to Eric Vaneberck:
 EV>> One big reason : There is no backward compatibility for RAR.
 EV>> I have 10 GB of files on different HD. If all files are archived with
 EV>> RAR, i must allways rearchive when a new release of RAR is
 EV>> coming. (try to unarchive XXXXX.RAR with RAR 1.5x when XXXXXX.RAR was
 EV>> made by RAR 2.x) (no problems with ARJ)
 GD> This is an absolute non-sens :-(
 GD> If the version 2 is born, why to use the v 1.5 to unarchive a package
 GD> archived with v2 ?
if you have a lot of PC and you want to upgrade, with RAR you *MUST* change
all RAR release at the same time. You also have problems with updating
old RAR archive.
With ARJ y ou have no problems
                                                 Eric
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