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   Gene Buckle to Kurt Weiske   
   Re: Microsoft and GitHub   
   18 Jun 18 13:51:21   
   
     Re: Re: Microsoft and GitHub   
     By: Kurt Weiske to Daryl Stout on Sun Jun 17 2018 08:39 am   
      
    > Glad we don't have to go through the Archiver Wars again  -- ARC versus   
    > ZIP, PAK is just as good, really... ARJ and LZH shaving off a tiny bit of   
    > space at the expense of compatibility...   
      
   I recall a local BBS (Pacific Northwest Archive if memory serves) went big into   
   DWC when it came out. He converted every compressed file in the file areas to   
   DWC.  I don't recall what the next "big thing" was after that, but I think it   
   was ARJ.   
      
   g.   
   --- SBBSecho 2.27-Win32   
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