CompuServe Messages

Larry (and others)…a couple of points here: 1) PAK does provide a way to see what's "in" a .PAK archive before unravelling it. You need the PAK utility itself to do this. It's a whopping 5K long, so it shouldn't put any terrible contraints on anyone to get it and keep it around. Type PAK PAKNAME.PAK to see the files inside the archive, with their full names, their original filesize, and their PAK'd filesize. So much for that argument. . 2) Mark Riley is dilligently working on new compression schemes for an upgrade to PAK. From discussions with him he indicated he can get PAK to compress down to equal or BETTER what ARC0.23 can deliver. If that's the case, then PAK could easily become ARC's replacement, since it's faster, smaller, its archives unPAK themselves, can use full Amiga style filenames, etc. etc. . 3) lastly, and perhaps most importantly, Mark is extremely soured by what he perceives to be rampant piracy amongst Amigans. The more shareware contributions he receives for PAK, the more likely he is to finish and distribute an improved version.