Subj : ARC FILES
To   : MATT MUNSON
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Dec 25 2016 06:32 am


 On 2016 Dec 24 15:42:36, you wrote to All:

 MM> For fidonet nodediffs are still done in ARC which is very old school.
 MM> Is there any good win32 applications that processes ARC archives?

i don't know of any unless 7zip handles them... they are also available in LZH 
and ZIP archives... just turn on those FDN, DIFFLZH and/or DIFFZIP to get them 
in addition to or instead of the traditional ARC ones...

but truthfully, in this day in time, diffs are pretty much a waste of 
processing time to produce and apply... the changes they carry are so minimal 
as to not even take a full cluster of drive space... the entire nodelist is 
only 200k, 1/10th of what it used to be, and you can get a whole new one 
delivered daily via the DAILYLIST FDN... if the nodelist were still up in the 
2meg range, diffs might be desired but with today's fast internet connections a 
nodelist of that size takes no time to transfer... with no one really having to 
pay for the amount of data or the connection time, getting a complete nodelist 
every day is quite cheap and easy... i've been running daily lists here for 
some years, now... none of my old-school software has complained...

plus, the processing is much simplier than doing the diff...

  cd nodelist directory
  del old nodelist
  unzip new daily nodelist
  exec nodelist compiler
  done!

:)

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