Subj : Re: Names
To   : SEAN DENNIS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Fri May 28 2021 09:29:00

> He changed it just enough to be able to call it his own even though it was
> far from anything original.
>
> I've always had better results with other archivers like ARJ, RAR, and such.

Same here, but with ARJ and LZH.  By the time RAR got popular, I think I
had give into ZIP.  :)

> It's interesting how the BBS community had a hand in ruining SEA and its
> products.
>
> The only reason I use ZIP is because of its defacto standard status.
> Otherwise I'd not use it at all.

Yeah, I don't think most of us had the full story back then.  For several
years, I would convert any ARC and ZIP files on the BBS to ARJ or LZH,
partially because I was running on a system with limited disk space and
those usually made smaller files.  I think I quit doing that when I started
adding CD ROM collections and/or when Windows pretty much made ZIP the
standard.  By then, I had a bigger HD, too.

Mike

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