To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	please don't use arj
Date:	Mon, 23 May 1994 08:53:22 PDT
From:	"Marty Leisner" <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>

I don't think we should use arj for any distributions for the following
reasons:
1) it is sharefree, not freeware
2) it doesn't seem to work right, and does the typical wierd dos
things with pathnames


It turned out a command like:
 
arj x /a/suitg111.arj
 
doesn't work, but
 
arj x suitg111.arj
 
Here are some compression sizes:
rw-------   1 leisner  other      981252 May 21 12:00 suit110.zip
rw-------   1 leisner  other      250896 May 21 12:22 suit111.zip
rw-------   1 leisner  other      967292 May 20 17:42 suitg110.arj
rw-------   1 leisner  other      251642 May 20 17:42 suitg111.arj



marty
Member of the League of Programming Freedom
leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com  leisner AT eso DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com

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