CompuServe Messages

Steve, One of the options you suggested makes a lot of sense to me – how about putting it to a straight YES/NO vote before this thread wanders off into a general discussion of ZOO, ZMODEM or whatever? It seems that most of us are more interested in shorter download times than in long filenames, fast unpacking, etc., and .ARC meets our needs better than any of the present options. We don't have the disk space in the DLs to store the same file as .ARC for some of us and .PAK for others. So let's make .ARC the standard here until a more efficient (i.e., smaller files) archive program comes along. The only exception that really makes any sense is UNARC.PAK for new members. If we agree, the Sysops would (as you suggest) convert files uploaded in other formats to .ARC before putting them in the DLs (with suitable incantations against "Trojan Horses" with .PAK suffixes!). Yes? No? Vince