CompuServe Messages

De-Arc problems

    23-Apr-88 19:53:48
Sb: #120639-De-Arc problems
Fm: Vic Wagner 76046,3004
To: Gregory Kozikowski 72770,3032
I'm not sure whether C'serve will handle the filenames directly or not, but we've chosen here to use ARC which was originally written for the (say it softly) IBM-PC world. As you may be aware, MS-DOS and such primitive OSs cannot handle long filenames. We've chosen to stay compatable with that compress-uncompress program for a variety of reasons, and we put up with short filenames as a consequence.