Subj : Re: Can't open packet w/
To   : Charles Angelich
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Sep 13 2000 12:12 am

Hi Charles.

 JB>> The signature for arc is hex 1A as the first byte

 CA> Pkarc was Pkpak and used PAK as the extension for very short time
 CA> then changed to Pkzip (I guess PAK was already used?).

CA> PKPAK    FAST!    Archive Create/Update Utility    Version 3.61   08-02-88
CA> Copyright (c) 1986-1988 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved.  PKPAK/h for help

PKARC    FAST!    Archive Create/Update Utility    Version 3.5    04-27-87
Copyright (c) 1986,1987 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved.  PKARC/h for help

Looks like arc preceeded pak.  I think the PAK thing came about after SEA
sued PK over the ARC name and extension and he gave in and renamed the
program.

The signature for pak is the same as arc but the second byte is 0x0a or 0x0b

 -=> Bye <=-

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