Date: Mon, 23 May 94 14:21:12 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: please don't use arj
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

> I don't think we should use arj for any distributions for the following
> reasons:
> 1) it is sharefree, not freeware

There is a freely distributable unarj.c with minimal features.

> 2) it doesn't seem to work right

Examples?  Or are you just referring to the way it handles paths?  I use ARJ
from time to time, so I'd like to know if it is broken.  My impression has
been that Robert Jung does much a much better job of beta testing and fixing
bugs than other shareware archiver authors.

> and does the typical wierd dos things with pathnames

Well, it is a DOS program...