.PAK files.
I feel that .arc is not all that difficult to use, once you get the hang
of it. Better documentation would help that a lot. The one thing that I feel
that makes .arc more desirable is that it does condense the files more. This is
of concerned to me, because I upload and download files to Compuserve, and time
is money. If a file is 50% smaller then it will require 50% less time to
download, and that can make a big difference since Compuserve is so slow at
doing xmodem, and Amiga files are generally very large. As long as .arc files
are available from uploaded .pak files then it doesn't make any difference to
me, but if a .pak file is not duplicated into an .arc file then I feel that
download times would be greatly increased and
pak files should not be allowed in the forum. In fact I think that all binary
files that are uploaded without being .arc should be .arc by the sysops. I
realize that this increases the amount of work for the sysops, but it sure is
nice having a 200 block file condensed down to 100 blocks. Most of the files I
have delt with have been condensed pretty close to 50% because most programs
come with documentation and the documentation is condensed the most, so it
averages out to be nearly 50% in most cases.
Ed